Classical and Foreign Quotations: A Polyglot Manual of Historical and Literary Sayings, Noted Passages in Poetry and Prose, Phrases, Proverbs, and Bons Mots
Classical and Foreign Quotations: A Polyglot Manual of Historical and Literary Sayings, Noted Passages in Poetry and Prose, Phrases, Proverbs, and Bons Mots
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...es aeL Thuc. 1, 22.--A perpetual possession. Said by Thucydides of his own history, which lie bequeathed as an "imperishable treasure " to posterity. 1218. Kurz ist der Schmerz, und ewig ist die Freude! Schiller, Jungfrau v. Orleans, fin. (Joan loq.).--Short is the pain, and eternal is the joy / 1219. Labitur occulte, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...es aeL Thuc. 1, 22.--A perpetual possession. Said by Thucydides of his own history, which lie bequeathed as an "imperishable treasure " to posterity. 1218. Kurz ist der Schmerz, und ewig ist die Freude! Schiller, Jungfrau v. Orleans, fin. (Joan loq.).--Short is the pain, and eternal is the joy / 1219. Labitur occulte, fallitque volubilis setas. Ov. Am. 1, 8, 49.--Time glules away unnoticed, and eludes us in his flight. 1220. Laborare est orare.--To work is to pray. "Admirable was that of the old monks, Laborarc est orare, Work is worship.... All true work is sacred: in nil true work there is something of divineness" Carlyle, Past and Present. Bk. 3, cap. 12, init. Spite, however, of Carlyle and current tradition, it does not appear that the qu. obtains as maxim or motto of any existing religious order; and it is possible, as Mr Ed. Marshall points out in Notes and Q., vol. xi. 472, that the Iiopular "jingle" may have been derived from the "laborare el orare" ol 'seudo-Bernard, Opera, vol. ii., col. 866, Paris, 1690. He says: "Qui urat et laborat, cor levat ad Deum cum manibus; qui vero orat et non lahorat, cor levat ad Deum seil non mantis." 1221. Labor est etiam ipse voluptas. Manil. Astr. 4, 155.--Even the toil itself is a pleasure. 1222. Labor omnia vicit Improbus, et duris urguens in rebus egestas. Virg. G. 1,145.--Unremitting toil and the exigencies of want have conquered all things. 1223. Laborum Dulce lenimen. Hor. C. 1, 32, 14.--Sweet solace of my toil. 1224. L'absence est a l'amour, ce qu'est au feu le vent, II eteint le petit, il allu me le grand. Bussy Rabutin, Maximes d'Amour (Amours des Dames, Cologne, 1717, p. 219). Love in Absence. Absence acts upon Love as wind acts upon fire; It qu...
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