utile dulci

American  

[oo-ti-le dool-kee, yoot-l-ee duhl-sahy, -see] / ˈu tɪ lɛ ˈdʊl ki, ˈjut l i ˈdʌl saɪ, -si /

Latin.

1. the useful with the pleasurable.

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utile dulci

Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci was not only an irrefragable axiom because a Latin poet had said it, but it exactly met the case in point.

From Among My Books Second Series by Lowell, James Russell

His fundamental basis is the stock Horatian "omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci," or as Harington paraphrases, "for in verse is both goodness and sweetness, Rubarb and Sugarcandie, the pleasant and the profitable."

From Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism by Clark, Donald Lemen

It seems to me that no association could be more propitious to the union of the utile dulci.

From Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 by Cole, John William

I don't doubt that we've made up our minds to make away with each other; but why not laugh too and unite utile dulci?

From Fathers and Children by Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich

A thoroughgoing Horatian, he cannot forbear to quote at length and comment upon the "miscere utile dulci," of his master.

From Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism by Clark, Donald Lemen