A Collection of Familiar Quotations: With Complete Indices of Authors and SubjectsJ. Bartlett, 1858 - 446 pages |
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... CHAPTER Xii . At Christmas play , and make good cheer , For Christmas comes but once a year . CHAPTER XXxviii . Such mistress , such Nan , Such master , such man . CHAPTER xlvi . ' Tis merry in hall , When beards wag all . * CHAPTER ...
... CHAPTER Xii . At Christmas play , and make good cheer , For Christmas comes but once a year . CHAPTER XXxviii . Such mistress , such Nan , Such master , such man . CHAPTER xlvi . ' Tis merry in hall , When beards wag all . * CHAPTER ...
Page 167
... Chapter xi . Ye Gods ! annihilate but space and time , And make two lovers happy . * Non aliter , si parva licet componere magnis . Virgil , Georg : Book iv . line 176 . To compare great things with small . Par . Lost . Book ii . line ...
... Chapter xi . Ye Gods ! annihilate but space and time , And make two lovers happy . * Non aliter , si parva licet componere magnis . Virgil , Georg : Book iv . line 176 . To compare great things with small . Par . Lost . Book ii . line ...
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... Chapter i . Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy , and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope ; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth , and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied ...
... Chapter i . Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy , and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope ; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth , and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied ...
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... Chapter xlix . Hell is paved with good intentions . † Chapter lxxx . Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat . Johnsoniana . Piozzi 30 . If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies , ' Tis a proof that he had rather Have ...
... Chapter xlix . Hell is paved with good intentions . † Chapter lxxx . Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat . Johnsoniana . Piozzi 30 . If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies , ' Tis a proof that he had rather Have ...
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... Chapter viii . The Hermit . Man wants but little here below , Nor wants that little long . * Chapter xvii . Elegy on a Mad Dog . * The dog , to gain some private ends , Went mad , and bit the man . The man recovered of the bite , The ...
... Chapter viii . The Hermit . Man wants but little here below , Nor wants that little long . * Chapter xvii . Elegy on a Mad Dog . * The dog , to gain some private ends , Went mad , and bit the man . The man recovered of the bite , The ...
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