Familiar Quotations: a Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature |
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... When we have wandered all our ways , Shuts up the story of our days . But
from this earth , this grave , this dust , My God shall raise me up , I trust ! Written
the night before his death . — Found in his Bible in the Gute - house at
Westminster .
... When we have wandered all our ways , Shuts up the story of our days . But
from this earth , this grave , this dust , My God shall raise me up , I trust ! Written
the night before his death . — Found in his Bible in the Gute - house at
Westminster .
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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
highest skie , To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature . Muiopotmos : or
...
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
highest skie , To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature . Muiopotmos : or
...
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All things in heaven and earth do her homage , - the very least as feeling her care
, and the greatest as not exempted from her power . Ecclesiastical Pulity . Book i .
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery . Book i .
All things in heaven and earth do her homage , - the very least as feeling her care
, and the greatest as not exempted from her power . Ecclesiastical Pulity . Book i .
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery . Book i .
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The lover , all as frantic , Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt : The poet's eye ,
in a fine frenzy rolling , Doth glance from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven ;
And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown , the poet's pen ...
The lover , all as frantic , Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt : The poet's eye ,
in a fine frenzy rolling , Doth glance from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven ;
And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown , the poet's pen ...
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This royal throne of kings , this sceptred isle , This earth of majesty , this seat of
Mars , This other Eden , demi - paradise , This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war , This happy breed of men , this little world ...
This royal throne of kings , this sceptred isle , This earth of majesty , this seat of
Mars , This other Eden , demi - paradise , This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war , This happy breed of men , this little world ...
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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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