Dictionary of Quotations From Ancient And Modern English And Foreign Sources
Dictionary of Quotations From Ancient And Modern English And Foreign Sources
James Wood
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Carlyle. Pains of love be sweeter far, ' Than all other pleasures are. Dryden. Paint costs nothing. Dut. Pr. " Paint me as I am. " (?) Painters draw their nymphs in thin and airy habits, but the weight of gold and of em- broideries is reserved for queens and god- desses. Dryden. Painting does not proceed so much by intelli- 50 gence as by sight and feeling and invention. Hamerton. Painting is silent poetry, and poetry speak- ing painting. Simonides. Painting is the intermediate between a though...t and a thing. Coleridge. Palabra de boca, piedra he honda— A word from the mouth is as :i stout- from a sling. Sp. Pr. PALABRA t 341 ] PARTA Palabra y piedra suelta no tiene vuelta — A word and a stone once launched cannot be re- called. Sp. Pr. Palam mutire plebeio piaculum est — For a common man to mutter what he thinks is a risky venture. Palinodiam canere — To recant. Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas, Regumque turres — Pale Death with impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of kings.
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