Familiar Quotations: a Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature |
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Gold all is not that doth golden seem . -SPENSER : Faerie Queene , book ii ,
canto viii . st . 14 . All that glisters is not gold . - SHAKESPEARE : Merchant of
Venice , act ii . sc . 7. Googe : Eglogs , etc. , 1563. HERBERT : Jacula Prudentum
.
Gold all is not that doth golden seem . -SPENSER : Faerie Queene , book ii ,
canto viii . st . 14 . All that glisters is not gold . - SHAKESPEARE : Merchant of
Venice , act ii . sc . 7. Googe : Eglogs , etc. , 1563. HERBERT : Jacula Prudentum
.
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On page 19 of The Private Correspondence of Lady Cornwallis , Sir Nathaniel
Bacon speaks of the owlde proverbe , " Out of sighte , out of mynde . " 3 See
Chaucer , page 5 . 4 All cry and no wool . BUTLER : Hudibras , part i . canto i .
line 852 .
On page 19 of The Private Correspondence of Lady Cornwallis , Sir Nathaniel
Bacon speaks of the owlde proverbe , " Out of sighte , out of mynde . " 3 See
Chaucer , page 5 . 4 All cry and no wool . BUTLER : Hudibras , part i . canto i .
line 852 .
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FIELDING : Eurydlice Hissed . 4 He knew what's what . — BUTLER : Hudibras ,
part i . canto i . line 149 . 5 In hope her to attain by hook or crook . -SPENSER :
Faerie Queene , book iii . canto i . st . 17 . 6 It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne
nest ...
FIELDING : Eurydlice Hissed . 4 He knew what's what . — BUTLER : Hudibras ,
part i . canto i . line 149 . 5 In hope her to attain by hook or crook . -SPENSER :
Faerie Queene , book iii . canto i . st . 17 . 6 It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne
nest ...
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When all candles bee out , all cats be gray . Ibid . No man ought to looke a given
horse in the mouth . ' Ibid . 1 Happy man be his dole - SHAKESPEARE : Merry
Wives , act ii . sc . 4 ; Winter's Tale , act i . sc . 2 . BUTLER : Hudibras , part i .
canto ...
When all candles bee out , all cats be gray . Ibid . No man ought to looke a given
horse in the mouth . ' Ibid . 1 Happy man be his dole - SHAKESPEARE : Merry
Wives , act ii . sc . 4 ; Winter's Tale , act i . sc . 2 . BUTLER : Hudibras , part i .
canto ...
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1 An earlier instance occurs in Heywood , in his “ Dialogue on Wit and Folly , "
circa 1530 . 2 Two strings to his bow . – HOOKER : Polity , book v . chap . lxxx .
CHAPMAN : D'Ambois , act ii . sc . 3. BUTLER : Hudibras , part iii . canto i . line 1 .
1 An earlier instance occurs in Heywood , in his “ Dialogue on Wit and Folly , "
circa 1530 . 2 Two strings to his bow . – HOOKER : Polity , book v . chap . lxxx .
CHAPMAN : D'Ambois , act ii . sc . 3. BUTLER : Hudibras , part iii . canto i . line 1 .
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| Title | Familiar Quotations: a Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature |
| Compiled by | John Bartlett |
| Edition | 9 |
| Publisher | Little, Brown, and Company, 1894 |
| Original from | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Digitized | 10 Oct 2014 |
| Length | 1158 pages |
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