Familiar Quotations: a Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature |
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Many maxims of the most famous writers of our language , and numberless
curious and happy turns from orators and poets , have knocked at the door , and
it was hard to deny them . But to admit these simply on their own merits , without ...
Many maxims of the most famous writers of our language , and numberless
curious and happy turns from orators and poets , have knocked at the door , and
it was hard to deny them . But to admit these simply on their own merits , without ...
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Happy man , happy dole.1 Proverbes . Part i . Chap . iii . God never sends th '
mouth but he sendeth meat . Chap . iv . Like will to like . Ibid . A hard beginning
maketh a good ending . Ibid . When the skie falth we shall have Larkes . 2 Ibid .
Happy man , happy dole.1 Proverbes . Part i . Chap . iii . God never sends th '
mouth but he sendeth meat . Chap . iv . Like will to like . Ibid . A hard beginning
maketh a good ending . Ibid . When the skie falth we shall have Larkes . 2 Ibid .
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Behold , whiles she before the altar stands , Hearing the holy priest that to her
speakes , And blesseth her with his two happy hands . Fpithalamion . Line 223 .
RICHARD HOOKER . 1553-1600 . Of Law there can be no less acknowledged
than ...
Behold , whiles she before the altar stands , Hearing the holy priest that to her
speakes , And blesseth her with his two happy hands . Fpithalamion . Line 223 .
RICHARD HOOKER . 1553-1600 . Of Law there can be no less acknowledged
than ...
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But earthlier happy is the rose distillid Than that which withering on the virgin
thorn ? Grows , lives , and dies in single blessedness . A Midsummer Night's
Dream . Act i . Sc . 1 . For aught that I could ever read , Could ever hear by tale or
history ...
But earthlier happy is the rose distillid Than that which withering on the virgin
thorn ? Grows , lives , and dies in single blessedness . A Midsummer Night's
Dream . Act i . Sc . 1 . For aught that I could ever read , Could ever hear by tale or
history ...
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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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