Classical and Foreign Quotations: Law Terms and Maxims, Proverbs, Mottoes, Phrases, and Expressions in French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, Spanish, and Portuguese. With Translations, References, Explanatory Notes, and Indexes |
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I should desire to supply the critic with an apposite quotation from Horace ; ? the journalist with a suggestive phrase , concise as Horace himself , from the French ; the essayist with some powerful line from a German poet ; the ...
I should desire to supply the critic with an apposite quotation from Horace ; ? the journalist with a suggestive phrase , concise as Horace himself , from the French ; the essayist with some powerful line from a German poet ; the ...
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Distance from books , or an inability to find in other translations the rendering required , have compelled me in many cases to be my own poet . How feeble and wooden is the result no one can be more sensible than myself , but I felt ...
Distance from books , or an inability to find in other translations the rendering required , have compelled me in many cases to be my own poet . How feeble and wooden is the result no one can be more sensible than myself , but I felt ...
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Poet . , Poetical . Præf . , Preface . Prol . , Prologue . Prov . , Proverb , Proverbial , -ly . Qu . , Quoted by . Q.v. , Which see . S. , Spanish . Sc . , Namely . Sub . , Understand , -stood . S.v. , Under the word . T. , Term .
Poet . , Poetical . Præf . , Preface . Prol . , Prologue . Prov . , Proverb , Proverbial , -ly . Qu . , Quoted by . Q.v. , Which see . S. , Spanish . Sc . , Namely . Sub . , Understand , -stood . S.v. , Under the word . T. , Term .
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Addressed to the poet who aspired to draw the various characters of men as they are seen in the world . 134. Æternum inter se discordant . ( L. ) Ter . And . 3 , 3 , 43. – They are eternally at variance . 135.
Addressed to the poet who aspired to draw the various characters of men as they are seen in the world . 134. Æternum inter se discordant . ( L. ) Ter . And . 3 , 3 , 43. – They are eternally at variance . 135.
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... Alfana " ( A mare , Ital . poet . ) from the Latin Equus , lacchè ( a lacquey ) , from verna , and others equally absurd , will be found in Le origini della lingua italiana compilate da E. Menagio ( Geneva , G. A. Chouet , 1635 ) .
... Alfana " ( A mare , Ital . poet . ) from the Latin Equus , lacchè ( a lacquey ) , from verna , and others equally absurd , will be found in Le origini della lingua italiana compilate da E. Menagio ( Geneva , G. A. Chouet , 1635 ) .
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| Title | Classical and Foreign Quotations: Law Terms and Maxims, Proverbs, Mottoes, Phrases, and Expressions in French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, Spanish, and Portuguese. With Translations, References, Explanatory Notes, and Indexes |
| Author | William Francis Henry King |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Thomas Whittaker, 1889 |
| Original from | Michigan State University |
| Digitized | 16 Aug 2013 |
| Length | 624 pages |
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