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"misera," "infelix," "fati nescia," sound the first undertones of a woe to come, even amidst the joy of the first meeting or the glad tumult of the hunting-scene.
Stray Studies from England and Italy John Richard Greene 1860
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After seeing “Golden Age,” I found myself on a “Puritani” kick for a couple of days (“Credeasi, misera” became a new earworm).
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Besides, misera est fortuna quae caret inimico, he is in a miserable estate that wants enemies: [4013] it is a thing not to be avoided, and therefore with more patience to be endured.
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Mulierum conditio misera; nullam honestam credunt nisi domo conclusa vivat.
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Ballmer: In future, when you scream at your misera...
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Hor. haec est Vita solutorum misera ambitione, gravique.
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At ego misera patre meo seniorem maritum nacta sum, cum cucurbita calviorom et quovis puero pumiliorem, cunctam domum seris et catenis obditam custodientem.
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Maerore maceror, marcesco et consenesco miser, ossa atque pellis sum misera macritudice.
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Ego hujus misera fatuitate et dementia conflictor.
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O misera virtus, ergo nihil quam verba eras, atqui ego te tanquam rem exercebam, sed tu serviebas fortunae.
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