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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... human kindness . Sc . 5 . Yet do I fear thy nature ; What thou wouldst highly , That wouldst thou holily ; wouldst not play false , And yet wouldst wrongly win . Ibia . That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose ...
... human kindness . Sc . 5 . Yet do I fear thy nature ; What thou wouldst highly , That wouldst thou holily ; wouldst not play false , And yet wouldst wrongly win . Ibia . That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose ...
Page 167
... line 749 . : Divina natura dedit agros , ars humana ædificavit urbes ( Divine Nature gave the fields , human art built the cities ) .- VARRO : De Re Rustica , iii . 1 . Some books are to be tasted , others to be BACON . 167.
... line 749 . : Divina natura dedit agros , ars humana ædificavit urbes ( Divine Nature gave the fields , human art built the cities ) .- VARRO : De Re Rustica , iii . 1 . Some books are to be tasted , others to be BACON . 167.
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... human features and countenance , although composed of but some ten parts or little more , are so fashioned that among so many thousands of men there are no two in existence who cannot be distinguished from one another . PLINY : Natural ...
... human features and countenance , although composed of but some ten parts or little more , are so fashioned that among so many thousands of men there are no two in existence who cannot be distinguished from one another . PLINY : Natural ...
Page 230
... human face divine ; But cloud instead , and ever - during dark Surrounds me ; from the cheerful ways of men Cut off , and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works , to me expung'd and raz'd , And ...
... human face divine ; But cloud instead , and ever - during dark Surrounds me ; from the cheerful ways of men Cut off , and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works , to me expung'd and raz'd , And ...
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... human life is , at the greatest and the best , but like a froward child , that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep , and then the care is over . Miscellanea . Part . Of Poetry . JOHN TILLOTSON ...
... human life is , at the greatest and the best , but like a froward child , that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep , and then the care is over . Miscellanea . Part . Of Poetry . JOHN TILLOTSON ...
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