Familiar Quotations: a Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature |
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6 Fair words never hurt the tongue . — Joxson , CHAPMAN , MARSTON :
Eastward Ho , act iv . sc 1 . 9 FLETCHER : Valentinian , act ii . sc . 1 . 10
HUMPHREY Robert : Complaint for Reformation , 1572 . LYLY : Euphues , 1579 (
Arber's reprint ) ...
6 Fair words never hurt the tongue . — Joxson , CHAPMAN , MARSTON :
Eastward Ho , act iv . sc 1 . 9 FLETCHER : Valentinian , act ii . sc . 1 . 10
HUMPHREY Robert : Complaint for Reformation , 1572 . LYLY : Euphues , 1579 (
Arber's reprint ) ...
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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 , What care I how chaste she be ?
Ibid .
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 , What care I how chaste she be ?
Ibid .
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An Humorous Day's Mirth . Black is a pearl in a woman's eye . 4 Ibid . Exceeding
fair she was not ; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer Than Nature
made her ; beauty cost her nothing , Her virtues were so rare . AU Fools . Act i .
An Humorous Day's Mirth . Black is a pearl in a woman's eye . 4 Ibid . Exceeding
fair she was not ; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer Than Nature
made her ; beauty cost her nothing , Her virtues were so rare . AU Fools . Act i .
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Fair words never hurt the tongue . ? Act iv . Sc . 1 . Let pride go afore , shame will
follow after . Ibid . I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the
hyena , the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf . Act v . Sc . 1 .
Fair words never hurt the tongue . ? Act iv . Sc . 1 . Let pride go afore , shame will
follow after . Ibid . I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the
hyena , the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf . Act v . Sc . 1 .
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And then the justice , In fair round belly with good capon lined , With eyes severe
and beard of formal cut , Full of wise saws and modern instances ; And so he
plays his part . The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon , With ...
And then the justice , In fair round belly with good capon lined , With eyes severe
and beard of formal cut , Full of wise saws and modern instances ; And so he
plays his part . The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon , 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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