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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... mind.2 Of two evils , the less is always to be chosen.3 Chap . 23 . Book ii . Chap . 12 . JOHN FORTESCUE . Circa 1395-1485 . Moche Crye and no Wull . De Laudibus Leg . Angliæ . Chap . x . Comparisons are odious . " Chap . xix . 1 This ...
... mind.2 Of two evils , the less is always to be chosen.3 Chap . 23 . Book ii . Chap . 12 . JOHN FORTESCUE . Circa 1395-1485 . Moche Crye and no Wull . De Laudibus Leg . Angliæ . Chap . x . Comparisons are odious . " Chap . xix . 1 This ...
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... mind . SHAKESPEARE : Merchant of Venice , act ii . sc . 5 . Also in Jests of Scogin . 1565 . 4 It is this proverb ... minds . - TERENCE : Phormio , ii . 3 . As the saying is , So many heades , so many wittes . QUEEN ELIZA- BETH : Godly ...
... mind . SHAKESPEARE : Merchant of Venice , act ii . sc . 5 . Also in Jests of Scogin . 1565 . 4 It is this proverb ... minds . - TERENCE : Phormio , ii . 3 . As the saying is , So many heades , so many wittes . QUEEN ELIZA- BETH : Godly ...
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... mind to me a kingdom is ; Such perfect joy therein I find , As far exceeds all earthly bliss That God and Nature hath assigned . Though much I want that most would have , Yet still my mind forbids to crave . BYRD : Psalmes , Sonnets ...
... mind to me a kingdom is ; Such perfect joy therein I find , As far exceeds all earthly bliss That God and Nature hath assigned . Though much I want that most would have , Yet still my mind forbids to crave . BYRD : Psalmes , Sonnets ...
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... mind Gets him to rest , crammed with distressful bread . Ibid . Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep . Ibid . But if it be a sin to covet honour , I am the most offending soul alive . Sc . 3 . This day is called the feast of ...
... mind Gets him to rest , crammed with distressful bread . Ibid . Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep . Ibid . But if it be a sin to covet honour , I am the most offending soul alive . Sc . 3 . This day is called the feast of ...
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... mind ; The thief doth fear each bush an officer . Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York , And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried . Ibid . Act iii . Sc ...
... mind ; The thief doth fear each bush an officer . Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York , And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried . Ibid . Act iii . Sc ...
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