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Ibid . You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ;
you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live . Ibid . He is well
paid that is well satisfied . Ibid How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank !
Ibid . You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ;
you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live . Ibid . He is well
paid that is well satisfied . Ibid How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank !
Page 66
The man that hath no music in himself , Nor is not moved with concord of sweet
sounds , Is fit for treasons , stratagems , and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are
dull as night , And his affections dark as Erebus . Let no such man be trusted .
The man that hath no music in himself , Nor is not moved with concord of sweet
sounds , Is fit for treasons , stratagems , and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are
dull as night , And his affections dark as Erebus . Let no such man be trusted .
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Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear . Ibid . The inaudible and
noiseless foot of Time.1 Ibid . All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of
more fancy . Ibid . The bitter past , more welcome is the sweet . Ibid If music be
the food ...
Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear . Ibid . The inaudible and
noiseless foot of Time.1 Ibid . All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of
more fancy . Ibid . The bitter past , more welcome is the sweet . Ibid If music be
the food ...
Page 78
Sweet , sweet , sweet poison for the age's tooth . Ibid . For courage mounteth with
occasion . Act ii . Sc . 1 . I would that I were low laid in my grave : I am not worth
this coil that's made for me . Ibid . Saint George , that swinged the dragon , and ...
Sweet , sweet , sweet poison for the age's tooth . Ibid . For courage mounteth with
occasion . Act ii . Sc . 1 . I would that I were low laid in my grave : I am not worth
this coil that's made for me . Ibid . Saint George , that swinged the dragon , and ...
Page 103
I thank you for your voices : thank you : Your most sweet voices . Ibid . Hear you
this Triton of the minnows ? Mark you His absolute “ shall ” ? Act ii . Sc . 1 .
Enough , with over - measure . Ibid . His nature is too noble for the world : He
would not ...
I thank you for your voices : thank you : Your most sweet voices . Ibid . Hear you
this Triton of the minnows ? Mark you His absolute “ shall ” ? Act ii . Sc . 1 .
Enough , with over - measure . Ibid . His nature is too noble for the world : He
would not ...
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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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