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Of a good beginning cometh a good end . Shee had seene far in a milstone . Ibid
. Better late than never.5 Ibid . Ibid . When the steede is stolne , shut the stable
durre . Pryde will have a fall ; For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after .
Of a good beginning cometh a good end . Shee had seene far in a milstone . Ibid
. Better late than never.5 Ibid . Ibid . When the steede is stolne , shut the stable
durre . Pryde will have a fall ; For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after .
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The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love . BURTOX : Anatomy of
Melancholy , part iii . sec . 2 . Amantium iræ amoris integratiost ( The quarrels of
lovers are the renewal of love ) . — TERENCE : Andria , act ii . sc . 5 . EDWARD
DYER .
The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love . BURTOX : Anatomy of
Melancholy , part iii . sec . 2 . Amantium iræ amoris integratiost ( The quarrels of
lovers are the renewal of love ) . — TERENCE : Andria , act ii . sc . 5 . EDWARD
DYER .
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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 . Fain would I climb , yet fear I to fall.3 [ History ] hath ...
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 . Fain would I climb , yet fear I to fall.3 [ History ] hath ...
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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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... though locked up in steel , Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted .
SHAKESPEARE : Henry VI . act ii . sc . 2 . 4 The same in Shakespeare's As You
Like It . Compare Chapman , page 35 . 8 By shallow rivers , to whose falls 1
Melodious ...
... though locked up in steel , Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted .
SHAKESPEARE : Henry VI . act ii . sc . 2 . 4 The same in Shakespeare's As You
Like It . Compare Chapman , page 35 . 8 By shallow rivers , to whose falls 1
Melodious ...
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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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