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He carries a stone in one hand, and offers bread with the other.
[Lat., Altera manu fert lapidem, altera read more
He carries a stone in one hand, and offers bread with the other.
[Lat., Altera manu fert lapidem, altera panem ostentat.]
Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it
were not begun on particular ends, it read more
Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it
were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
And from his ashes may be made
The violet of his native land.
And from his ashes may be made
The violet of his native land.
A Horse made, and a man to make.
A Horse made, and a man to make.
The chiefe boxe of health is time.
The chiefe boxe of health is time.
Nature never says one thing, and science another.
Nature never says one thing, and science another.
The shortest follies are the best.
[Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]
The shortest follies are the best.
[Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]
The mind still longs for what it has missed, and loses itself in
the contemplation of the past.
The mind still longs for what it has missed, and loses itself in
the contemplation of the past.
The gentle Hawke halfe mans her selfe.
The gentle Hawke halfe mans her selfe.
