Familiar Quotations: a Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature |
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Page 23
A sweet attractive kinde of grace , A full assurance given by lookes , Continuall
comfort in a face The lineaments of Gospell bookes . An Elegie ; or Friend's
Passion for his Astrophill.1 Was never eie did see that face , Was never eare did
heare ...
A sweet attractive kinde of grace , A full assurance given by lookes , Continuall
comfort in a face The lineaments of Gospell bookes . An Elegie ; or Friend's
Passion for his Astrophill.1 Was never eie did see that face , Was never eare did
heare ...
Page 44
O jest unseen , inscrutable , invisible , As a nose on a man's face , ' or a
weathercock on a steeple . Ibid . She is mine own , And I as rich in having such a
jewel As twenty seas , if all their sand were pearl , The water nectar , and the
rocks pure ...
O jest unseen , inscrutable , invisible , As a nose on a man's face , ' or a
weathercock on a steeple . Ibid . She is mine own , And I as rich in having such a
jewel As twenty seas , if all their sand were pearl , The water nectar , and the
rocks pure ...
Page 52
I never tempted her with word too large , But , as a brother to his sister , show'd
Bashful sincerity and comely love . Ibid . I have mark'd A thousand blushing
apparitions To start into her face , a thousand innocent shames In angel
whiteness ...
I never tempted her with word too large , But , as a brother to his sister , show'd
Bashful sincerity and comely love . Ibid . I have mark'd A thousand blushing
apparitions To start into her face , a thousand innocent shames In angel
whiteness ...
Page 69
And then the whining school - boy , with his satchel And shining morning face ,
creeping like snail Unwillingly to school . And then the lover , Sighing like furnace
, with a woful ballad Made to his mistress ' eyebrow . Then a soldier , Full of ...
And then the whining school - boy , with his satchel And shining morning face ,
creeping like snail Unwillingly to school . And then the lover , Sighing like furnace
, with a woful ballad Made to his mistress ' eyebrow . Then a soldier , Full of ...
Page 92
Fire answers fire , and through their paly flames Each battle sees the other's
umbered face ; Steed threatens steed , in high and boastful neighs Piercing the
night's dull ear , and from the tents The armourers , accomplishing the knights ,
With ...
Fire answers fire , and through their paly flames Each battle sees the other's
umbered face ; Steed threatens steed , in high and boastful neighs Piercing the
night's dull ear , and from the tents The armourers , accomplishing the knights ,
With ...
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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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