Dictionary of quotations (classical) / by Thomas Benfield Harbottle.

Date:
1897
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Credit: Dictionary of quotations (classical) / by Thomas Benfield Harbottle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Perception, 365, 441. Perfect, Everything— after its kind, 292. Perfection, 101, 149. Perfumes, 167, 205. Perjuries, 8. ,, Lovers’— 174, 210. Permanent, Nothing— 499. Perseverance, 20, 330, 473. ,, in love, 268. Persuasion, 378, 423, 464, 477, 479. Petard, Hoist with his own— 154. Peter, Robbing— to pay Paul, 228. Philip, To appeal from— drunk to— sober, 220. Philosophers, The laughing and cry- ing— 116. Philosophy, 149, 158, 190, 211, 420, 527. ,, an antidote for sorrow, 50. ,, begins in wonder, 411. ,, cares nought for pedigrees, 268. ,, ennobling, 198. Phrixus, The ram of— 5. Physician, 445, 514, 521. ,, heal thyself, 155. ,, Speech the— 410. Pics and puppies, 9. Piety, 150, 212. ,, the keystone of virtue, 81. ,, The reward of— 38. Pillars, Male children the— of the house, 496. Pilot, 408., Pindar, 212. Pitcher, The— of the Danaids, 375. Pity, 137, 280, 407, 420. Placability, 420. Place, Out of— 421. Places do not ennoble men, 456, 465. Plagiarism, 209. Plato, 261. ,, Sooner wrong with— than right with such as these, 56. Plays, Old— and old wine, 233. Pleasantry, 254. Pleasure, 6, 53, 119, 131, 151, 287, 307, 313, 389, 406, 480, 503. ,, A slave of— 420. ,, a toil, 118. ,, and pain, 179, 181, 291, 441. ,, bought with pain, 273. ,, God’s— should be man’s— 212. ,, Guilty— 341. ,, has its bane, 79. ,, instead of duty, 500. ,, Master of— 324, 406. ,, or profit in poetry, 20. Pleasure, Sorrow the comrade of— 113. ,, the greatest good, 248. Pleasures cease to please, 362. ,, end in satiety, 199. ,, Ill-timed— 389. ,, Rare— the keenest, 522. Pledges, 357, 360. Plumes, Borrowed— 140. Plutus, 103, 359. Poems, 173. ,, a deathless monument, 28. Poesy, No royal road to— 167. Poet, 110, 144, 244, 333, 423, 460. ,, A dramatic— 531. Poet’s, A— licence, 211, 214. Poetry, 20, 145, 147, 301. ,, Ancient—5,60. ,, and painting, 296, 504. ,, mellowed by age, 268. Poets, 53, 76, 275, 278, 435, 474. ,, Bad— 255. ,, born not made, 31. ,, bring a divine gift, 177. ,, Conceit of— 153. ,, honoured, 271. ,, Mediocre— 132. ,, Rich— 296. ,, the fathers of wisdom, 469. ,, Tragic— 297. Poets’ self-esteem, 5. Poland, The end of— 71. Political, Man a— animal, 428. Pomp, 168. Poor, A great soul in a— man’s body, 389. ,, Marriage an evil for a— man, 446, 537. ,, Rich and— 234. ,, The— 102. Populace, 142. Popularity, 159, 275. Possession, A— for ever, 408. ,, Perpetual— 210. Possessions, A righteous life with small— 404. ,, Intellectual— 478. Posterity, 281. I Potter’s, The— art, 370. Poverty, 33, 43, 84, 97, 112, 169, 173, 174, 206, 207, 225, 253, 263, 334, 343, 351, 364, 369, 390, 431, 452, 477, 478, 480, 491, 509, 512. ,, a schoolmaster, 477, 478. ,, a teacher of the arts, 220. ,, breeds strenuous children, 400. ,, Guilty—■ 127. ,, Honest— 402.