Nordisk tidskrift for philologi og pædagogik

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O. Schwartz, 1899

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Page 66 - All goeth down Gutter-lane. That is, the throat. This proverb is applicable to those who spend all their substance in eating and drinking".
Page 68 - ... Probably this was a saying to a troublesome fellow, desiring him to take himself off to a great distance". More probably there is an allusion to lock (prison; or 'lock up' = 'shut up'). long: "It is coming by Tom Long, the carrier; said of any thing that has been long expected.» Grose, Vulg. 1788. loth: "Though such for woe, by Lothbury go, For being spide about Cheapside...
Page 57 - ... extra autem disponantur porticus tres, una ex peristylio exeuntibus, duae dextra atque sinistra stadiatae, ex quibus una quae spectaverit ad septentrionem perficiatur duplex amplissima latitudine, alterae simplices ita factae uti in partibus quae fuerint circa parietes et quae erunt ad columnas, margines habeant uti semitas non minus pedum denum mediumque excavatum uti gradus sint in descensu a marginibus sesquipedem ad planitiem, quae planities sit non minus pedes XII.
Page 64 - This is the way to Beggar's-bush. "] It is spoken of such who use dissolute and improvident courses, which tend to poverty ; Beggar's-bush being a tree notoriously known, on the left hand of London road from Huntingdon to Caxton.
Page 69 - DICK. To the tune of the life and death of Queen Dick. That happened in the reign of Queen Dick; ie never. QUEEN STREET. A man governed by his wife, is said to live in Queen street, or at the sign of the Queen's Head.
Page 68 - Put up your pipes, and go to Lockington wake" (G.). LockingtoD in Leicestershire, upon the confines of Derby and Nottingham shires. Grose says, "Probably this was a saying to a troublesome fellow, desiring him to take himself off to a great distance". More probably there is an allusion to lock (prison; or 'lock up
Page 53 - Capitulis perfectis deinde columnarum non ad libellam sed ad aequalem modulum conlocatis, ut, quae adiectio in stylobatis facta fuerit, in superioribus membris respondeat symmetria epistyliorum.
Page 64 - ... 1721 KELLY Scot. Prov. 146 He is a proud tod that will not scrape his own hole. A reproof to them who refuse to do their own proper business, or an excuse in them that do it. ['fox.] He is a representative of Berkshire. 1787 GROSE Proainc. Glos., Berks. (1811) 151 He is a representative of Berkshire. A vulgar joke on any one afflicted with a cough, which is here termed barking.
Page 70 - ... of a public house, the owner being in a state of great excitement. WANTED Several young people. When last seen were walking in pairs up Sabbath Breakers' Lane, which leads to the City of No Good.
Page 122 - Sed quia utrumque modum vulgus praedicantium ignorat, ideo convertit se ad summam «t infinitam curiositatem, scilicet per divisiones Porphyrianas, et per consonantias ineptas verborum et clausularum, et per concordantias vocales, in quibus est sola vanitas verbosa, omni carens ornatu rhetorico et virtute persuadendi.

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