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... death- less dead implies also a community of mind with them , which the reader will not grudge the author lest he should seem to deny it to himself.1 In literary composition a well - chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine ...
... death- less dead implies also a community of mind with them , which the reader will not grudge the author lest he should seem to deny it to himself.1 In literary composition a well - chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine ...
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... death . ? occurring after a quotation means that author , or passage ( or both ) , are uncertain . See p . i . at the bottom , and p . viii . and note . The first words of a quotation beginning with the end of a line of poetry are , in ...
... death . ? occurring after a quotation means that author , or passage ( or both ) , are uncertain . See p . i . at the bottom , and p . viii . and note . The first words of a quotation beginning with the end of a line of poetry are , in ...
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... death ; No weak lament , no mournful stave ; All clamorous grief were waste of breath , And vain the tribute of a grave . - Conington . 21. Absit invidia . ( L . ) — All offence apart . 22. Absit invidia verbo . ( L. ) Liv . 9 , 19 , 15 ...
... death ; No weak lament , no mournful stave ; All clamorous grief were waste of breath , And vain the tribute of a grave . - Conington . 21. Absit invidia . ( L . ) — All offence apart . 22. Absit invidia verbo . ( L. ) Liv . 9 , 19 , 15 ...
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... death of the person concerned . Thus , in Osborne v . Gillett , Lord Bramwell held that a father might bring an action for negligence , whereby his daughter was killed but Chief Baron Kelly and Baron Piggott main- tained that the maxim ...
... death of the person concerned . Thus , in Osborne v . Gillett , Lord Bramwell held that a father might bring an action for negligence , whereby his daughter was killed but Chief Baron Kelly and Baron Piggott main- tained that the maxim ...
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... death's borderland The bliss it is to die : Where life is vigorous still , to give Men courage to endure to live , The gods have sealed the eye.-Ed. 147. Agnosco veteris vestigia flammæ . ( L. ) Luc . 4 , 517 . ( L. ) Virg . A. 4 , 23 ...
... death's borderland The bliss it is to die : Where life is vigorous still , to give Men courage to endure to live , The gods have sealed the eye.-Ed. 147. Agnosco veteris vestigia flammæ . ( L. ) Luc . 4 , 517 . ( L. ) Virg . A. 4 , 23 ...
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Page 377 - When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray ; What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.
Page 79 - Ce que l'on conçoit bien s'énonce clairement , Et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisément.
Page 183 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands : But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed, Oth.
Page 31 - Was vernünftig ist, das ist wirklich; und was wirklich ist, das ist vernünftig.
Page 78 - Celui qui met un frein à la fureur des flots Sait aussi des méchants arrêter les complots. Soumis avec respect à sa volonté sainte, Je crains Dieu, cher Abner, et n'ai point d'autre crainte Cependant je rends grâce au zèle officieux Qui sur tous mes périls vous fait ouvrir les yeux.
Page 299 - Les vertus se perdent dans l'intérêt, comme les fleuves se perdent dans la mer.
Page 490 - If on my theme I rightly think, There are five reasons why men drink: Good wine, a friend, because I 'm dry, Or least I should be by and by, Or any other reason why.
Page 135 - Praecipue cum se numeris commendat et arte : Discit enim citius meminitque libentius illud Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur.
Page 298 - Les rivières sont des chemins qui marchent et qui portent où l'on veut aller.