Familiar Quotations: a Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature |
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Page 59
... When simpleness and duty tender it . Ibid . The true beginning of our end . "
Ibid . The best in this kind are but shadows . Ibid . A very gentle beast , and of a
good conscience . Ibid . This passion , and the death of a dear friend , would go
near ...
... When simpleness and duty tender it . Ibid . The true beginning of our end . "
Ibid . The best in this kind are but shadows . Ibid . A very gentle beast , and of a
good conscience . Ibid . This passion , and the death of a dear friend , would go
near ...
Page 74
Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear . Ibid . The inaudible and
noiseless foot of Time.1 Ibid . All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of
more fancy . Ibid . The bitter past , more welcome is the sweet . Ibid If music be
the food ...
Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear . Ibid . The inaudible and
noiseless foot of Time.1 Ibid . All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of
more fancy . Ibid . The bitter past , more welcome is the sweet . Ibid If music be
the food ...
Page 91
Once more unto the breach , dear friends , once more , Or close the wall up with
our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest
stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears , Then imitate
the ...
Once more unto the breach , dear friends , once more , Or close the wall up with
our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest
stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears , Then imitate
the ...
Page 102
Had I a dozen sons , each in my love alike and none less dear than thine and my
good Marcius , I had rather eleven die nobly for their country than one
voluptuously surfeit out of action . Coriolanus . Act i . Sc . 3 . - PUBLIUS 1 Unless
degree is ...
Had I a dozen sons , each in my love alike and none less dear than thine and my
good Marcius , I had rather eleven die nobly for their country than one
voluptuously surfeit out of action . Coriolanus . Act i . Sc . 3 . - PUBLIUS 1 Unless
degree is ...
Page 108
They may seize On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand And steal immortal
blessing from her lips , Who , even in pure and vestal modesty , Still blush , as
thinking their own kisses sin . Ibid . The damned use that word in hell . Ibid .
Adversity's ...
They may seize On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand And steal immortal
blessing from her lips , Who , even in pure and vestal modesty , Still blush , as
thinking their own kisses sin . Ibid . The damned use that word in hell . Ibid .
Adversity's ...
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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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