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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Page 61
... o'er a cold decree . Ibid . The Merchant of Venice . Act i . Sc . 2 . He doth nothing but talk of his horse . God made him , and therefore let him pass for a man . Ibid . When he is best , he is a little worse than a man ; and when he ...
... o'er a cold decree . Ibid . The Merchant of Venice . Act i . Sc . 2 . He doth nothing but talk of his horse . God made him , and therefore let him pass for a man . Ibid . When he is best , he is a little worse than a man ; and when he ...
Page 74
... o'er my ear like the sweet sound 2 That breathes upon a bank of violets , Stealing and giving odour ! I am sure care ' s an enemy to life . At my fingers ' ends . " Wherefore are these things hid ? The web of our life is of a mingled ...
... o'er my ear like the sweet sound 2 That breathes upon a bank of violets , Stealing and giving odour ! I am sure care ' s an enemy to life . At my fingers ' ends . " Wherefore are these things hid ? The web of our life is of a mingled ...
Page 104
... by the joiner squirrel or old grub , Time out o ' mind the fairies ' coachmakers . 1 Sec Heywood , page 18 . 2 See Chapman , page 36 . Ibid . Ibid . Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck , And then 104 SHAKESPEARE .
... by the joiner squirrel or old grub , Time out o ' mind the fairies ' coachmakers . 1 Sec Heywood , page 18 . 2 See Chapman , page 36 . Ibid . Ibid . Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck , And then 104 SHAKESPEARE .
Page 105
Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck , And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats , Of breaches , ambuscadoes , Spanish blades , Of healths five - fathom deep ; and then anon Drums in his ear , at which he starts and wakes ...
Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck , And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats , Of breaches , ambuscadoes , Spanish blades , Of healths five - fathom deep ; and then anon Drums in his ear , at which he starts and wakes ...
Page 124
... o'er - fraught heart and bids it break . What , all my pretty chickens and their dam At one fell swoop ? Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . I cannot but remember such things were , That were most precious to me . Ibid . O , I could play the ...
... o'er - fraught heart and bids it break . What , all my pretty chickens and their dam At one fell swoop ? Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . I cannot but remember such things were , That were most precious to me . Ibid . O , I could play the ...
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