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I pray thee let me and my fellow have A haire of the dog that bit us last night . Ibid
. But in deede , A friend is never knowne till a man have neede . Ibid . This
wonder ( as wonders last ) lasted nine daies.8 Part ii . Chap . i . New brome
swepth ...
I pray thee let me and my fellow have A haire of the dog that bit us last night . Ibid
. But in deede , A friend is never knowne till a man have neede . Ibid . This
wonder ( as wonders last ) lasted nine daies.8 Part ii . Chap . i . New brome
swepth ...
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Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay . Verses to Edmund Spenser .
Cowards ( may ] fear to die ; but courage stout , Rather than live in snuff , will be
put out . On the snufj of a candle the night before he died . - Raleigh's Remains ,
p .
Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay . Verses to Edmund Spenser .
Cowards ( may ] fear to die ; but courage stout , Rather than live in snuff , will be
put out . On the snufj of a candle the night before he died . - Raleigh's Remains ,
p .
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This will last out a night in Russia , When nights are longest there . Ibid Condemn
the fault , and not the actor of it ? Sc . 2 . No ceremony that to great ones ' longs ,
Not the king's crown , nor the deputed sword , The marshal's truncheon ...
This will last out a night in Russia , When nights are longest there . Ibid Condemn
the fault , and not the actor of it ? Sc . 2 . No ceremony that to great ones ' longs ,
Not the king's crown , nor the deputed sword , The marshal's truncheon ...
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But earthlier happy is the rose distillid Than that which withering on the virgin
thorn ? Grows , lives , and dies in single blessedness . A Midsummer Night's
Dream . Act i . Sc . 1 . For aught that I could ever read , Could ever hear by tale or
history ...
But earthlier happy is the rose distillid Than that which withering on the virgin
thorn ? Grows , lives , and dies in single blessedness . A Midsummer Night's
Dream . Act i . Sc . 1 . For aught that I could ever read , Could ever hear by tale or
history ...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream . Act ii . Sc . 1.1 I'll put a girdle round about the earth
In forty minutes . ? Ibid . My heart Is true as steel.8 Ibid.4 I know a bank where the
wild thyme blows , Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows , Quite over ...
A Midsummer Night's Dream . Act ii . Sc . 1.1 I'll put a girdle round about the earth
In forty minutes . ? Ibid . My heart Is true as steel.8 Ibid.4 I know a bank where the
wild thyme blows , Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows , Quite over ...
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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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