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Besides 'tis known he could speak Greek As naturally as pigs squeak; That Latin was no more difficile That to a blackbird 'tis to whistle. - Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 51) A Babylonish dialect Which learned pedants much affect. - Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 93) For though to smatter ends of Greek Or Latin be the rhetoric Of pedants counted, and vain-glorious, To smatter French is meritorious. - Samuel Butler (1), Remains in Verse and Prose--Satire--Upon Our Ridiculous Imitation of the French (line 127), a Greek proverb condemns the man of two tongues I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Beppo (st. 44) . . . Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark. - William Cowper, Retirement (l. 691) He Greek and Latin speaks with greater ease Than hogs eat acorns, and tame pigeons peas. - Lionel Cranfield, Earl of Middlesex, Panegyric on Tom Coriate Lashed into Latin by the tingling rod. - John Gay Lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod. - John Gay, The Birth of the Squire (l. 46) He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own. [Ger., Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.] - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Kunst und Alterthum Small Latin, and less Greek. - Ben Jonson, To the Memory of Shakespeare Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin. [Lat., Omnia Graece! Cum sit turpe magis nostris nescire Latine.] - Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal), Satires (VI, 187), (second line said to be spurious) Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other. - Jean de la Bruyere, The Characters or Manners of the Present Age (ch. XII) It is Hebrew to me. [Fr., C'est de l'hebreu pour moi.] - Moliere (pseudonym of Jean Baptiste Poquelin), L'Etourdi (act III, sc. 3) He attempts to use language which he does not know. [Lat., Negatas artifex sequi voces.] - Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus), Satires--Prologue (XI) Speaks three or four languages word for word without a book. - William Shakespeare This is your devoted friend, sir, the manifold linguist and the armipotent soldier. - William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well (Second Lord at IV, iii) But those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but for mine own part, if was Greek to me. - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Casca at I, ii) Away with him, away with him! He speaks Latin. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth, Part II (Cade at IV, vii) O, good my lord, no Latin! I am not such a truant since my coming As not to know the language I have lived in. A strnage tongue makes my cause more strnage, suspicious. Pray speak in English. - William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Katherine at III, i) But to the purpose--for we cite our faults That they may hold excused our lawless lives; And partly, seeing you are beautified With goodly shape, and by your own report A linguist, and a man of such perfection As we do in our quality much want-- - William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (First Outlaw at IV, i) He plays o' th' viol-de-gamboys, and speaks three or four languages word for word without book, and hath all the good gifts of nature. - William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Toby at I, iii) Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two! - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic (act I, sc. 2)
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