Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages: Classified Subjectively and Arranged Alphabetically, Volumen2G. P. Putnam's sons, 1887 |
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Proverbs, Maxims, and Phrases of All Ages: Classified Subjectively ..., Volumen2 Vista completa - 1890 |
Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages: Classified Subjectively ..., Volumen2 Vista completa - 1888 |
Términos y frases comunes
beautiful Ben Jonson better Bible Byron Chinese Cicero Cingalese comes daugh devil Don Quixote doth Dutch Euripides evil Fair words fool friends goes Greek hand Hans Andersen hath heart Horace horse Ital Johnson Juvenal keep Latin live Livy maid man's marriage marry master mind misfortune mother mouse mouth ne'er neighbor never Ovid pain Patience peace penny Petrarch Plautus pleasure plough Plutarch poor Pope poverty praise Pride prince proverb Punch purse rat won't repentance revenge rich ride saint secret seldom Seneca servant Shaks shame sheep silence slander sleep sluggard soon sorrow sows spare speak steal sword Syrus Tacitus talk Tamil tears thief thieves things thou tongue Trust truth Turk vice virtue wealth wicked wife wind wine wisdom wise wolf woman women worth wound wrong young
Pasajes populares
Página 464 - Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Página 384 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Página 255 - Macbeth does murder sleep;' the innocent sleep : Sleep, that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course ; Chief nourisher in life's feast.
Página 477 - They talk about a woman's sphere. As though it had a limit; There's not a place in earth or heaven, There's not a task to mankind given, There's not a blessing or a woe, There's not a whisper, Yes or No, There's not a life, or death, or birth, That has a feather's weight of worth, Without a woman in it.
Página 125 - But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approaches Tarn maun ride — That hour o...
Página 366 - Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain,' And dies among his worshippers.
Página 32 - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
Página 253 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Página 295 - Strike, till the last armed foe expires, Strike, for your altars and your fires, Strike, for the green graves of your sires, God, and your native land.
Página 203 - Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will. But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.