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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... Honour of Beautie . Line 132 . For all that faire is , is by nature good ; 8 That is a signe to know the gentle blood . To kerke the narre from God more farre , * Has bene an old - sayd sawe ; And he that strives to touche a starre Oft ...
... Honour of Beautie . Line 132 . For all that faire is , is by nature good ; 8 That is a signe to know the gentle blood . To kerke the narre from God more farre , * Has bene an old - sayd sawe ; And he that strives to touche a starre Oft ...
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... honour without deserving , To other some , deserving without honour . " 1 See Thomas à Kempis , page 7 . Ibid . Act ii . Sc . 1 . Act v . Sc . 1 . 2 Who ever loved that loved not at first sight ? - MARLOWE : Hero and Leander . I saw and ...
... honour without deserving , To other some , deserving without honour . " 1 See Thomas à Kempis , page 7 . Ibid . Act ii . Sc . 1 . Act v . Sc . 1 . 2 Who ever loved that loved not at first sight ? - MARLOWE : Hero and Leander . I saw and ...
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... honour , sudden and quick in quarrel , Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth . And then the justice , In fair round belly with good capon lined , With eyes severe and beard of formal cut , Full of wise saws and modern ...
... honour , sudden and quick in quarrel , Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth . And then the justice , In fair round belly with good capon lined , With eyes severe and beard of formal cut , Full of wise saws and modern ...
Page 84
... honour from the pale - faced moon , Or dive into the bottom of the deep , Where fathom - line could never touch the ground , And pluck up drowned honour by the locks . I know a trick worth two of that . Ibid . Act ii . Sc . 1 . If the ...
... honour from the pale - faced moon , Or dive into the bottom of the deep , Where fathom - line could never touch the ground , And pluck up drowned honour by the locks . I know a trick worth two of that . Ibid . Act ii . Sc . 1 . If the ...
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... Honour pricks me on . Yea , but how if honour prick me off when I come on , - how then ? Can honour set to a leg ? no or an arm ? no : or take away the grief of a wound ? no . Honour hath no skill in surgery , then ? no . What is honour ...
... Honour pricks me on . Yea , but how if honour prick me off when I come on , - how then ? Can honour set to a leg ? no or an arm ? no : or take away the grief of a wound ? no . Honour hath no skill in surgery , then ? no . What is honour ...
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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