Familiar Quotations: a Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature |
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Page 81
... infection and the hand of war , This happy breed of men , this little world , This
precious stone set in the silver sea , Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a
moat defensive to a house , Against the envy of less happier lands , This blessed
...
... infection and the hand of war , This happy breed of men , this little world , This
precious stone set in the silver sea , Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a
moat defensive to a house , Against the envy of less happier lands , This blessed
...
Page 144
Though I am not splenitive and rash , Yet have I something in me dangerous .
Ibid . Forty thousand brothers Could not , with all their quantity of love , Make up
my sum . Ibid . 1 1 And from his ashes may be made The violet of his native land .
Though I am not splenitive and rash , Yet have I something in me dangerous .
Ibid . Forty thousand brothers Could not , with all their quantity of love , Make up
my sum . Ibid . 1 1 And from his ashes may be made The violet of his native land .
Page 161
Why , as men do a - land : the great ones eat up the little ones . Act ii . Sc . 1 . Bid
me discourse , I will enchant thine ear . Venus and Adonis . Line 145 . Line 1019 .
For he being dead , with him is beauty slain , And , beauty dead , black chaos ...
Why , as men do a - land : the great ones eat up the little ones . Act ii . Sc . 1 . Bid
me discourse , I will enchant thine ear . Venus and Adonis . Line 145 . Line 1019 .
For he being dead , with him is beauty slain , And , beauty dead , black chaos ...
Page 201
If so Cherry ripe , ripe , ripe , I cry , Full and fair ones , come and buy ! be you ask
me where They do grow , I answer , there , Where my Julia's lips do smile , —
There's the land , or cherry - isle . Cherry Ripe . Some asked me where the rubies
...
If so Cherry ripe , ripe , ripe , I cry , Full and fair ones , come and buy ! be you ask
me where They do grow , I answer , there , Where my Julia's lips do smile , —
There's the land , or cherry - isle . Cherry Ripe . Some asked me where the rubies
...
Page 233
Line 614 . With thee conversing I forget all time , All seasons , and their change ,
— all please alike . Sweet is the breath of morn , her rising sweet , With charm of
earliest birds ; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His ...
Line 614 . With thee conversing I forget all time , All seasons , and their change ,
— all please alike . Sweet is the breath of morn , her rising sweet , With charm of
earliest birds ; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His ...
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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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