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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... hear . MATHEW HENRY : Com- mentaries . Psalm lviii . 7 He has the wrong sow by the ear.JONSON : Every Man in his Humour , act ii . sc . 1 . 8 See Chaucer , page 6 . 9 CHAPMAN : Widow's Tears , 1612 . A proverb in the time of Saint ...
... hear . MATHEW HENRY : Com- mentaries . Psalm lviii . 7 He has the wrong sow by the ear.JONSON : Every Man in his Humour , act ii . sc . 1 . 8 See Chaucer , page 6 . 9 CHAPMAN : Widow's Tears , 1612 . A proverb in the time of Saint ...
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... hear by tale or history , The course of true love never did run smooth . Ibid . O , hell ! to choose love by another's eyes . Ibid . Swift as a shadow , short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night , That in a spleen ...
... hear by tale or history , The course of true love never did run smooth . Ibid . O , hell ! to choose love by another's eyes . Ibid . Swift as a shadow , short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night , That in a spleen ...
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... hear it . I am never merry when I hear sweet music . 1 " It is not nominated in the bond . " - White . Ibid Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . Act v . Sc . 1 . Ibid . The man that hath no music in himself , Nor 5 SHAKESPEARE . 65.
... hear it . I am never merry when I hear sweet music . 1 " It is not nominated in the bond . " - White . Ibid Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . Act v . Sc . 1 . Ibid . The man that hath no music in himself , Nor 5 SHAKESPEARE . 65.
Page 87
... hear it ? no . ' Tis insensible , then ? yea , to the dead . But will it not live with the living ? no . Why ? detraction will not suffer it . Therefore I'll none of it . Honour is a mere scutcheon . And so ends my catechism . no . Two ...
... hear it ? no . ' Tis insensible , then ? yea , to the dead . But will it not live with the living ? no . Why ? detraction will not suffer it . Therefore I'll none of it . Honour is a mere scutcheon . And so ends my catechism . no . Two ...
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... hear That things ill got had ever bad success ? And happy always was it for that son Whose father for his hoarding went to hell ? Warwick , peace , Proud setter up and puller down of kings ! A little fire is quickly trodden out ; Which ...
... hear That things ill got had ever bad success ? And happy always was it for that son Whose father for his hoarding went to hell ? Warwick , peace , Proud setter up and puller down of kings ! A little fire is quickly trodden out ; Which ...
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Anatomy of Melancholy angels BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER beauty better blessed Book breath Cæsar Canto Chap Chaucer Childe Harold's Pilgrimage dark dead dear death devil DIOGENES LAERTIUS divine Don Quixote doth dream Dryden earth Epistle eternal evil fair fear fire flower fool give glory golden grave hand happy hast hath heart heaven hell Henry Heywood honour hope Hudibras Ibid JOHN king light Line live look Lord lost man's Maxim mind morning nature ne'er never night numbers o'er peace pleasure PLUTARCH POPE proverb PUBLIUS SYRUS RABELAIS Richard III rose Sect Shakespeare sing sleep smile song Sonnet sorrow soul Speech spirit Stanza stars sweet tears thee Themistocles thine things THOMAS THOMAS HEYWOOD thou art thought tongue truth unto viii virtue wind wise woman words young youth