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  • [5195] Spanish bawd said, gaudet illa habere unum in lecto, alterum in porta, tertium qui domi suspiret, she will have one sweetheart in bed, another in the gate, a third sighing at home, a fourth, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Nobilitas omnis fere urbes fastidit, castellis, et liberiore coelo gaudet, generisque dignitatem una maxime venatione, et falconum aucupiis tuetur.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Their minds are vacant, their imagination dull, their spirits poor, and so they are driven to the company of those like them — for similis simili gaudet — where they make common pursuit of pastime and entertainment, consisting for the most part in sensual pleasure, amusement of every kind, and finally, in excess and libertinism.

    The Wisdom of Life 2004

  • This is because it wants to read only what has just been printed, and because similis simili gaudet, and it finds the shallow, insipid gossip of some stupid head of to-day more homogeneous and agreeable than the thoughts of great minds.

    Essays of Schopenhauer 2004

  • Catastrophe (cries Slawkenbergius) inasmuch as a tale, with parts rightly disposed, not only rejoiceth (gaudet) in the Catastrophe and Peripeitia of a Drama, but rejoiceth moreover in all the essential and integrant parts of it — it has its Protasis,

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • Catastrophe (cries Slawkenbergius) inasmuch as a tale, with parts rightly disposed, not only rejoiceth (gaudet) in the Catastrophe and Peripeitia of a Drama, but rejoiceth moreover in all the essential and integrant parts of it — it has its Protasis,

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • Juxta illud, de male quaesitis vix gaudet tertius haeres.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Juxta illud, de male quaesitis vix gaudet tertius haeres.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • * Tali dedicatore gaudet sanguis Christianus: [5811] 1

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • Deianira, tuas, quae ueris addere falsa/gaudet, et e minima sua per mendacia crescit '.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

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