Familiar Quotations: a Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern LiteratureLittle, Brown, and Company, 1894 - 1158 pages |
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Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.1 Proverbes . Part i . Chap . xi . Rome was not built in one day . Ibid . Yee have many strings to your bowe.2 Ibid . Many small make a great.3 Ibid . Children learne to creepe ere they can ...
Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.1 Proverbes . Part i . Chap . xi . Rome was not built in one day . Ibid . Yee have many strings to your bowe.2 Ibid . Many small make a great.3 Ibid . Children learne to creepe ere they can ...
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... hand in hand , not one before another . He hath indeed better bettered expectation . A Act iii . Sc . 1 . Act v . Sc . 1 . Ibid . Ibid . Much Ado about Nothing . Act i . Sc . 1 . very valiant trencher - man . He wears his faith but as ...
... hand in hand , not one before another . He hath indeed better bettered expectation . A Act iii . Sc . 1 . Act v . Sc . 1 . Ibid . Ibid . Much Ado about Nothing . Act i . Sc . 1 . very valiant trencher - man . He wears his faith but as ...
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... hand . Make haste ; the better foot before . I saw a smith stand with his hammer , thus , The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool , With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news . Another lean unwashed artificer . How oft the sight of ...
... hand . Make haste ; the better foot before . I saw a smith stand with his hammer , thus , The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool , With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news . Another lean unwashed artificer . How oft the sight of ...
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... hand of war , This happy breed of men , this little world , This precious stone set in the silver sea , Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house , Against the envy of less happier lands , - Ibid . This ...
... hand of war , This happy breed of men , this little world , This precious stone set in the silver sea , Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house , Against the envy of less happier lands , - Ibid . This ...
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... hand carry gentle peace , To silence envious tongues . Be just , and fear not : Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's , Thy God's , and truth's ; then if thou fall'st , O Cromwell , Thou fall'st a blessed martyr ! Ibid . Had ...
... hand carry gentle peace , To silence envious tongues . Be just , and fear not : Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's , Thy God's , and truth's ; then if thou fall'st , O Cromwell , Thou fall'st a blessed martyr ! Ibid . Had ...
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