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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... pleasure to acknowledge the great as- sistance I have received from Mr. A. W. STEVENS , the accomplished reader of the University Press , as this work was passing through the press . In withdrawing from this very agreeable pursuit , I ...
... pleasure to acknowledge the great as- sistance I have received from Mr. A. W. STEVENS , the accomplished reader of the University Press , as this work was passing through the press . In withdrawing from this very agreeable pursuit , I ...
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... pleasure . ROBERT SOUTHWELL : St. Peter's Complaint . 1595 . BURNS : Tam O'Shanter . Nae man can tether time or tide . - 8 Fast bind , fast find ; A proverb never stale in thrifty mind . SHAKESPEARE : Merchant of Venice , act ii . sc ...
... pleasure . ROBERT SOUTHWELL : St. Peter's Complaint . 1595 . BURNS : Tam O'Shanter . Nae man can tether time or tide . - 8 Fast bind , fast find ; A proverb never stale in thrifty mind . SHAKESPEARE : Merchant of Venice , act ii . sc ...
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... pleasures might me move To live with thee , and be thy love . The Numph's Reply to the Passionate Shepherd . Fain would I , but I dare not ; I dare , and yet I may not ; I may , although I care not , for pleasure when I play not . Fain ...
... pleasures might me move To live with thee , and be thy love . The Numph's Reply to the Passionate Shepherd . Fain would I , but I dare not ; I dare , and yet I may not ; I may , although I care not , for pleasure when I play not . Fain ...
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... pleasure ta''en ; In brief , sir , study what you most affect . There's small choice in rotten apples . Nothing comes amiss ; so money comes withal . Tush ! tush ! fear boys with bugs . And do as adversaries do in law , Strive mightily ...
... pleasure ta''en ; In brief , sir , study what you most affect . There's small choice in rotten apples . Nothing comes amiss ; so money comes withal . Tush ! tush ! fear boys with bugs . And do as adversaries do in law , Strive mightily ...
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... the coming hour o'erflow with joy , And pleasure drown the brim . No legacy is so rich as honesty . 1 See Heywood , page 18 . Sc . 4 . Act iii . Sc . 5 . All impediments in fancy's course The bitter past , more SHAKESPEARE . 73.
... the coming hour o'erflow with joy , And pleasure drown the brim . No legacy is so rich as honesty . 1 See Heywood , page 18 . Sc . 4 . Act iii . Sc . 5 . All impediments in fancy's course The bitter past , more SHAKESPEARE . 73.
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Anatomy of Melancholy angels BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER beauty better blessed Book breath Cæsar Canto Chap Chaucer Childe Harold's Pilgrimage dark dead dear death devil DIOGENES LAERTIUS divine Don Quixote doth dream Dryden earth Epistle eternal evil fair fear fire flower fool give glory golden grave hand happy hast hath heart heaven hell Henry Heywood honour hope Hudibras Ibid JOHN king light Line live look Lord lost man's Maxim mind morning nature ne'er never night numbers o'er peace pleasure PLUTARCH POPE proverb PUBLIUS SYRUS RABELAIS Richard III rose Sect Shakespeare sing sleep smile song Sonnet sorrow soul Speech spirit Stanza stars sweet tears thee Themistocles thine things THOMAS THOMAS HEYWOOD thou art thought tongue truth unto viii virtue wind wise woman words young youth