Familiar Quotations: a Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature |
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Page 36
To put a girdle round about the world.3 Bussy D'Ambuis . Act i . Sc . 1 . His deeds
inimitable , like the sea That shuts still as it opes , and leaves no tracts Nor prints
of precedent for poor men's facts . Ibid . So our lives In acts exemplary , not only ...
To put a girdle round about the world.3 Bussy D'Ambuis . Act i . Sc . 1 . His deeds
inimitable , like the sea That shuts still as it opes , and leaves no tracts Nor prints
of precedent for poor men's facts . Ibid . So our lives In acts exemplary , not only ...
Page 48
... to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods , or
to reside In thrilling region of thick - ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless
winds , And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world . ibid .
... to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods , or
to reside In thrilling region of thick - ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless
winds , And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world . ibid .
Page 58
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 - canopied with luscious woodbine ,
With ...
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 - canopied with luscious woodbine ,
With ...
Page 69
And then the justice , In fair round belly with good capon lined , With eyes severe
and beard of formal cut , Full of wise saws and modern instances ; And so he
plays his part . The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon , With ...
And then the justice , In fair round belly with good capon lined , With eyes severe
and beard of formal cut , Full of wise saws and modern instances ; And so he
plays his part . The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon , With ...
Page 89
I'll tickle your catastrophe . Ibid . He hath eaten me out of house and home . Ibid .
Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel - gilt goblet , sitting in my Dolphin -
chamber , at the round table , by a sea - coal fire , upon Wednesday in Wheeson
week .
I'll tickle your catastrophe . Ibid . He hath eaten me out of house and home . Ibid .
Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel - gilt goblet , sitting in my Dolphin -
chamber , at the round table , by a sea - coal fire , upon Wednesday in Wheeson
week .
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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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