Familiar Quotations: a Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature |
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Page 19
It is better to be An old man's derling than a yong man's werling . Ibid . Be the day
never so long , Evermore at last they ring to evensong . Ibid . The moone is made
of a greene cheese . * Ibid . I know on which side my bread is buttred , Ibid .
It is better to be An old man's derling than a yong man's werling . Ibid . Be the day
never so long , Evermore at last they ring to evensong . Ibid . The moone is made
of a greene cheese . * Ibid . I know on which side my bread is buttred , Ibid .
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O jest unseen , inscrutable , invisible , As a nose on a man's face , ' or a
weathercock on a steeple . Ibid . She is mine own , And I as rich in having such a
jewel As twenty seas , if all their sand were pearl , The water nectar , and the
rocks pure ...
O jest unseen , inscrutable , invisible , As a nose on a man's face , ' or a
weathercock on a steeple . Ibid . She is mine own , And I as rich in having such a
jewel As twenty seas , if all their sand were pearl , The water nectar , and the
rocks pure ...
Page 58
I have had a dream , past the wit of man to say what dream it was . Ibid . The eye
of man hath not heard , the ear of man hath not seen , man's hand is not able to
taste , his tongue to conceive , nor his heart to report , what my dream was . Ibid .
I have had a dream , past the wit of man to say what dream it was . Ibid . The eye
of man hath not heard , the ear of man hath not seen , man's hand is not able to
taste , his tongue to conceive , nor his heart to report , what my dream was . Ibid .
Page 130
Give every man thy ear , but few thy voice ; Take each man's censure , but
reserve thy judgment . Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy , But not express'd in
fancy ; rich , not gaudy ; For the apparel oft proclaims the man . Hamlet . Act i . Sc
. 3 .
Give every man thy ear , but few thy voice ; Take each man's censure , but
reserve thy judgment . Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy , But not express'd in
fancy ; rich , not gaudy ; For the apparel oft proclaims the man . Hamlet . Act i . Sc
. 3 .
Page 166
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism , but depth in philosophy
bringeth men's minds about to religion . ' Ibid . Travel , in the younger sort , is a
part of education ; in the elder , a part of experience . He that travelleth into a
country ...
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism , but depth in philosophy
bringeth men's minds about to religion . ' Ibid . Travel , in the younger sort , is a
part of education ; in the elder , a part of experience . He that travelleth into a
country ...
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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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