Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern LiteratureLittle, Brown, and Company, 1894 - 1158 pages |
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... doth gentil dedis.2 This flour of wifly patience . Line 6752 . The Clerkes Tale . Part v . Line 8797 . They demen gladly to the badder end . The Squieres Tale . Line 10538 . Therefore behoveth him a ful long spone , That shall eat with ...
... doth gentil dedis.2 This flour of wifly patience . Line 6752 . The Clerkes Tale . Part v . Line 8797 . They demen gladly to the badder end . The Squieres Tale . Line 10538 . Therefore behoveth him a ful long spone , That shall eat with ...
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... doth breede in me the more continuall remembrance of him . Anne Lady Bacon to Jane Lady Cornwallis , 1613 . - On page 19 of The Private Correspondence of Lady Cornwallis , Sir Nathaniel Bacon speaks of the owlde proverbe , " Out of ...
... doth breede in me the more continuall remembrance of him . Anne Lady Bacon to Jane Lady Cornwallis , 1613 . - On page 19 of The Private Correspondence of Lady Cornwallis , Sir Nathaniel Bacon speaks of the owlde proverbe , " Out of ...
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... doth drive.9 Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . Set the cart before the horse.10 Chap . vii . Ibid . 1 See Skelton , page 8 . 2 I have thee on the hip . - sc . 1 ; Othello , act ii . sc . 7 . 3 See Chaucer , page 4 . -- 4 A hardy mouse that is ...
... doth drive.9 Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . Set the cart before the horse.10 Chap . vii . Ibid . 1 See Skelton , page 8 . 2 I have thee on the hip . - sc . 1 ; Othello , act ii . sc . 7 . 3 See Chaucer , page 4 . -- 4 A hardy mouse that is ...
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... doth take ; For soule is forme , and doth the bodie make . An Hymne in Honour of Beautie . Line 132 . For all that faire is , is by nature good ; 8 That is a signe to know the gentle blood . To kerke the narre from God more farre ...
... doth take ; For soule is forme , and doth the bodie make . An Hymne in Honour of Beautie . Line 132 . For all that faire is , is by nature good ; 8 That is a signe to know the gentle blood . To kerke the narre from God more farre ...
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... doth his life in so long tendance spend ! Mother Hubberds Tale . Line 895 What more felicitie can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with libertie , And to be lord of all the workes of Nature , To raine in th ' aire from earth to ...
... doth his life in so long tendance spend ! Mother Hubberds Tale . Line 895 What more felicitie can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with libertie , And to be lord of all the workes of Nature , To raine in th ' aire from earth to ...
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