Familiar Quotations: a Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature |
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To fret thy soule with crosses and with cares ; To eate thy heart through
comfortlesse dispaires ; To fawne , to crowche , to waite , to ride , to ronne , To
spend , to give , to want , to be undonne . Unhappie wight , borne to desastrous
end , That ...
To fret thy soule with crosses and with cares ; To eate thy heart through
comfortlesse dispaires ; To fawne , to crowche , to waite , to ride , to ronne , To
spend , to give , to want , to be undonne . Unhappie wight , borne to desastrous
end , That ...
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I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved
more than with a trumpet . Ibid . High - erected thoughts seated in the heart of
courtesy.1 Arcadia . Book i . They are never alone that are accompanied with
noble ...
I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved
more than with a trumpet . Ibid . High - erected thoughts seated in the heart of
courtesy.1 Arcadia . Book i . They are never alone that are accompanied with
noble ...
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My heart Is true as steel.8 Ibid.4 I know a bank where the wild thyme blows ,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows , Quite over - canopied with luscious
woodbine , With sweet musk - roses and with eglantine . A lion among ladies is a
...
My heart Is true as steel.8 Ibid.4 I know a bank where the wild thyme blows ,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows , Quite over - canopied with luscious
woodbine , With sweet musk - roses and with eglantine . A lion among ladies is a
...
Page 138
They are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please . Give me
that man That is not passion's slave , and I will wear him In my heart's core , ay ,
in my heart of heart , As I do thee . - Something too much of this . Hamlet . Act iii .
They are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please . Give me
that man That is not passion's slave , and I will wear him In my heart's core , ay ,
in my heart of heart , As I do thee . - Something too much of this . Hamlet . Act iii .
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Pluck out the heart of my mystery . Hamlet . Act iii . Sc . 2 . Do you think I am
easier to be played on than a pipe ? Ibid . Ham . Do you see yonder cloud that's
almost in shape of a camel ? Pol . By the mass , and ' t is like a camel , indeed .
Ham .
Pluck out the heart of my mystery . Hamlet . Act iii . Sc . 2 . Do you think I am
easier to be played on than a pipe ? Ibid . Ham . Do you see yonder cloud that's
almost in shape of a camel ? Pol . By the mass , and ' t is like a camel , indeed .
Ham .
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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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