Familiar Quotations: a Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature |
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Page 31
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 .
Page 53
... they themselves not feel . Ibid . Charm ache with air , and agony with words .
Ibid ' T is all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of
sorrow , But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure
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... they themselves not feel . Ibid . Charm ache with air , and agony with words .
Ibid ' T is all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of
sorrow , But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure
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Page 81
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow
naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ? O , no ! the
apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse . King
Richard II .
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow
naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ? O , no ! the
apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse . King
Richard II .
Page 119
Art thou not , fatal vision , sensible To feeling as to sight ? or art thou but A dagger
of the mind , a false creation , Proceeding from the heat - oppressed brain ? Ibid .
Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going . Ibid . Now o'er the one half ...
Art thou not , fatal vision , sensible To feeling as to sight ? or art thou but A dagger
of the mind , a false creation , Proceeding from the heat - oppressed brain ? Ibid .
Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going . Ibid . Now o'er the one half ...
Page 143
Has this fellow no feeling of his business ? Ibid . Custom hath made it in him a
property of easiness . Ibid . The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense
. Ibid . A politician , one that would circumvent God . Ibid . Why may not that be the
...
Has this fellow no feeling of his business ? Ibid . Custom hath made it in him a
property of easiness . Ibid . The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense
. Ibid . A politician , one that would circumvent God . Ibid . Why may not that be the
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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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