Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1909 - 1104 psl. |
Knygos viduje
Rezultatai 1–5 iš 100
3 psl.
... slang are dignified by the fact that slang may become the scholarly language of the future , just as the slang of the past is nearly the richest and most idiomatic portion of the current speech of to - day . Even the tracing of literary ...
... slang are dignified by the fact that slang may become the scholarly language of the future , just as the slang of the past is nearly the richest and most idiomatic portion of the current speech of to - day . Even the tracing of literary ...
7 psl.
... slang , meaning first - rate , excellent , is borrowed from the ratings used in Lloyd's Register of Shipping . The higher classes of vessels are styled A , and the figure 1 following the class letter shows that the equip- ment is ...
... slang , meaning first - rate , excellent , is borrowed from the ratings used in Lloyd's Register of Shipping . The higher classes of vessels are styled A , and the figure 1 following the class letter shows that the equip- ment is ...
13 psl.
... slang term for small beer , now almost obsolete . The allusion is to the fact that publicans were by act of Parliament forced to supply billeted soldiers , gratis , with five pints of small beer daily . There is a story current among ...
... slang term for small beer , now almost obsolete . The allusion is to the fact that publicans were by act of Parliament forced to supply billeted soldiers , gratis , with five pints of small beer daily . There is a story current among ...
16 psl.
... slang an Admiral of the Blue is a public - house keeper , in allusion to the blue apron which is , or was , his usual insignia , while Admiral of the Red is a term applied to such of his customers as have developed a cheery , rubicund ...
... slang an Admiral of the Blue is a public - house keeper , in allusion to the blue apron which is , or was , his usual insignia , while Admiral of the Red is a term applied to such of his customers as have developed a cheery , rubicund ...
34 psl.
... slang , inordinate , violent , immoderate . Not unlikely it is a euphemistic corruption of " hell - fired . ” " I know I be so all - fired jealous I can't bear to hear o ' her talking , let alone writing , to you . " - T . HUGHES : Tom ...
... slang , inordinate , violent , immoderate . Not unlikely it is a euphemistic corruption of " hell - fired . ” " I know I be so all - fired jealous I can't bear to hear o ' her talking , let alone writing , to you . " - T . HUGHES : Tom ...
Kiti leidimai - Peržiūrėti viską
Pagrindiniai terminai ir frazės
acrostic admiration advertisements Æsop American anagram ancient appeared asked Ben Jonson bouts-rimés Cæsar called century Charles common cried curious dead death Diogenes Laertius doth Duke Echo England English epigram epitaph essay expression eyes famous father fool France French gentleman give Goethe Greek hand hath head heart heaven Henry honor Horace Walpole horse Hudibras humor John Julius Cæsar king known lady language Latin letter lines literary literature live London Lord Lord Byron meaning mind modern Molière never Notes and Queries once origin person phrase play Plutarch poem poet political Pope popular proverb Publius Syrus quoted replied says sense Shakespeare slang soul speech stanza story tell term thee things thou thought tion told turn verse Voltaire wife word write wrote young
Populiarios ištraukos
616 psl. - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks and wanton wiles, Nods and becks and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
208 psl. - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools...
230 psl. - In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
125 psl. - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
711 psl. - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
258 psl. - Yet must I not give nature all; thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion ; and, that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, Such as thine are, and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
713 psl. - Little drops of water, little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land.
739 psl. - Sweet Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die.
741 psl. - We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
637 psl. - Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.