utile dulci
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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
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
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
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
From the titles of some of them, and from his motto, "Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci," it is evident that they were intended to be humorous.
From History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour by L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan
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