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  • Mr. Wright translates "celsa" by "Mulberries," without, however, giving his authority for this translation. [

    The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868

  • Caption: Praesulis hic summi benedictio celsa notatur.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • I trust you not; ‘Hic steterat Priami,’ take heed he hear us not, ‘regia,’ presume not, ‘celsa senis,’ despair not.

    The Taming of the Shrew 2004

  • England is thus made a nullity; the "celsa sedet in Eolus in arce," which Canning delighted to quote, to express the moderating function which he wished to reserve for his country, is now a meaningless phrase.

    The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various

  • Now let me see if I can construe it: Hac ibat Simois, I know you not; hic est Sigeia tellus, I trust you not; Hic steterat Priami, take heed he hear us not, regia, presume not; celsa senis, despair not.

    Act III. Scene I. The Taming of the Shrew 1914

  • Scilicet haec populo pexusque togaque recenti et natalicia tandem cum sardonyche albus sede leges celsa, liquido cum plasmate guttur mobile conlueris, patranti fractus ocello. tunc neque more probo videas nec voce serena ingentis trepidare Titos, cum carmina lumbum intrant et tremulo scalpuntur ubi intima versu.

    Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

  • The quilisma is shown on the second syllable of celsa, where we first have a punctum, serving as the starting-point, then the triple curve of the quilisma itself, to which the virga stroke, representing the highest note, is attached.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • The torculus is seen on the first syllable of adimplens, first syllable of docente (fourth line), etc. On the first syllable of celsa we have the torculus liquescens, the last gravis being shortened.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • Sane [7] tantum a nobis quaeri oportet quantum humanae rationis intuitus ad diuinitatis ualet celsa conscendere.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • Thus in Ælfric's Vocabulary in the tenth century it is given to the Aspen -- "Sicomorus vel celsa æps."

    The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868

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