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The small thin volume , the first to bear the title of this collection , after passing
through eight editions , each enlarged , now culminates in its ninth , — and with it
, closes its tentative life . This extract from the Preface of the fourth edition is ...
The small thin volume , the first to bear the title of this collection , after passing
through eight editions , each enlarged , now culminates in its ninth , — and with it
, closes its tentative life . This extract from the Preface of the fourth edition is ...
Page 49
Sc . 2 of Beaumont and Fletcher's Bloody Brother , with the following additional
stanza :Hide , O , hide those hills of snow , Which thy frozen bosom bears , On
whose tops the pinks that grow Are of those that April wears ! But first set my poor
...
Sc . 2 of Beaumont and Fletcher's Bloody Brother , with the following additional
stanza :Hide , O , hide those hills of snow , Which thy frozen bosom bears , On
whose tops the pinks that grow Are of those that April wears ! But first set my poor
...
Page 59
Such tricks hath strong imagination , That if it would but apprehend some joy , It
comprehends some bringer of that joy ; Or in the night , imagining some fear ,
How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! Ibid . For never anything can be amiss ,
When ...
Such tricks hath strong imagination , That if it would but apprehend some joy , It
comprehends some bringer of that joy ; Or in the night , imagining some fear ,
How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! Ibid . For never anything can be amiss ,
When ...
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And so ends my catechism . Ibid . Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere .
Sc . 4 . This earth that bears thee dead Bears not alive so stout a gentleman . Ibid
. Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave , But not remember'd in thy epitaph !
And so ends my catechism . Ibid . Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere .
Sc . 4 . This earth that bears thee dead Bears not alive so stout a gentleman . Ibid
. Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave , But not remember'd in thy epitaph !
Page 93
... Between two dogs , which hath the deeper mouth ; Between two blades , which
bears the better temper ; Between two horses , which doth bear him best ;
Between two girls , which hath the merriest eye ,I have perhaps some shallow
spirit of ...
... Between two dogs , which hath the deeper mouth ; Between two blades , which
bears the better temper ; Between two horses , which doth bear him best ;
Between two girls , which hath the merriest eye ,I have perhaps some shallow
spirit of ...
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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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