Hermathena, Issue 19; Issues 42-43University of Dublin, 1920 - Humanities |
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3rd pers Anna Perenna antilogism apostles appears Aristophanes artabae Battle of Lugdunum century Classical clause codd conjugation context correct Cors cube cubits Culex Diomedes edition editors ending Eusebius example give Gospels Grattius Greek Heracles HERMATHENA-VOL History Ibid indicative interpretation Irenaeus Irish John kynge L. C. PURSER Latin latter lines meaning Molière mood Narbon nihil Nordic occurs original Ovid Papias papyrus passage Phaedrus Platnauer poet present press-mark primitive verb probably Prof quae quod quoted Rabelais reference regarded saec scholars scripsi seems Seneca sense sentence Severus Shakespeare single cols statement subjunctive form suggested sunt tense Testament Testimony Book Teuffel Thracian Thurneysen tion translation uespertilio unnumbered ff Vedic vowel words writer yere δὲ ἐν ἐξήγησις ἐπὶ καὶ οἱ τὰ τὰς τῆς τὸ τοῖς τὸν τοῦ τῶν ὡς
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Page 28 - Tis that which we all see and know." Any one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance than I can inform him by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air.
Page 32 - Harry is valiant ; for the cold blood he did naturally inherit of his father, he hath, like lean, sterile, and bare land, manured, husbanded, and tilled, with excellent endeavour of drinking good and good store of fertile sherris, that he is become very hot and valiant. If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, — to forswear thin potations, and to addict themselves to sack.
Page 46 - ... du simple bon sens naturel et du commerce de tout le beau monde, on s'y fait une manière d'esprit qui, sans comparaison, juge plus finement des choses que tout le savoir enrouillé des pédants.
Page 41 - Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a seacoal fire, upon Wednesday in Wheeson week, when the prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of Windsor, thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me and make me my lady thy wife.
Page 49 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter, more than I invent or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Page 36 - Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy time, but also how thou art accompanied: for though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted the sooner it wears.
Page 36 - Mademoiselle, ne plus ne moins que la statue de Memnon rendait un son harmonieux, lorsqu'elle venait à être éclairée des rayons du soleil; tout de même me sens-je animé d'un doux transport à l'apparition du soleil de vos beautés.
Page 45 - As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize As the dead carcases of unburied men That do corrupt my air, I banish you ; And here remain with your uncertainty ! Let every feeble rumour shake your hearts ! Your enemies, with nodding of their plumes, Fan you into despair ! Have the power still To banish your defenders ; till, at length, Your ignorance...
Page 43 - Qu'on me l'égorgé tout à l'heure ; qu'on me lui fasse griller les pieds ; qu'on me le mette dans l'eau bouillante, et qu'on me le pende au plancher.
Page 219 - Peter had said, or what Philip, or what Thomas or James, or what John or Matthew or any other of the disciples of the Lord (had said), and (secondly) what Aristion and John the Elder, the disciples of the Lord, say.