Familiar Quotations: a Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature |
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Written the night before his death . — Found in his Bible in the Gute - house at
Westminster . Shall I , like an hermit , dwell On a rock or in a cell ? Poem . If she
undervalue me , What care I how fair she be ? 2 Ibid . If she seem not chaste to
me ...
Written the night before his death . — Found in his Bible in the Gute - house at
Westminster . Shall I , like an hermit , dwell On a rock or in a cell ? Poem . If she
undervalue me , What care I how fair she be ? 2 Ibid . If she seem not chaste to
me ...
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When faith is kneeling by his bed of death , And innocence is closing up his eyes
, Now if thou wouldst , when all have given him over , From death to life thou
might'st him yet recover . Ideas . An Allusion to the Eaglets . lxi . CHRISTOPHER
...
When faith is kneeling by his bed of death , And innocence is closing up his eyes
, Now if thou wouldst , when all have given him over , From death to life thou
might'st him yet recover . Ideas . An Allusion to the Eaglets . lxi . CHRISTOPHER
...
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I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan , Who cants a doleful hymn to his own
death . King John , act r . sc . 7 . There , swan - like , let me sing and die . – Byron
: Don Juan , canto iii . st . 86 . You think that upon the score of fore - knowledge
and ...
I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan , Who cants a doleful hymn to his own
death . King John , act r . sc . 7 . There , swan - like , let me sing and die . – Byron
: Don Juan , canto iii . st . 86 . You think that upon the score of fore - knowledge
and ...
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Sc . 4.1 Out of the jaws of death . ” Ibid . 1 As the old hermit of Prague , that never
saw pen and ink , very wittily said to a niece of King Gorboduc , That that is , is .
Act iv . Sc . 2 . Clo . What is the opinion of Pythagoras concerning wild fowl ? Mal .
Sc . 4.1 Out of the jaws of death . ” Ibid . 1 As the old hermit of Prague , that never
saw pen and ink , very wittily said to a niece of King Gorboduc , That that is , is .
Act iv . Sc . 2 . Clo . What is the opinion of Pythagoras concerning wild fowl ? Mal .
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T is strange that death should sing . I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan , Who
chants a doleful hymn to his own death , And from the organ - pipe of frailty sings
His soul and body to their lasting rest . Sc . 7 . Now my soul hath elbow - room .
T is strange that death should sing . I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan , Who
chants a doleful hymn to his own death , And from the organ - pipe of frailty sings
His soul and body to their lasting rest . Sc . 7 . Now my soul hath elbow - room .
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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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