Familiar Quotations: a Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature |
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MATHEW HENRY : Commentaries . Psalm lriii . 7 He has the wrong sow by the
ear . ~ Joxson : Every Man in his Humour , act ii . sc . 1 . 8 See Chaucer , page 6 .
9 CHAPMAN : Widow's Tears , 1612 . A proverb in the time of Saint Bernard was
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MATHEW HENRY : Commentaries . Psalm lriii . 7 He has the wrong sow by the
ear . ~ Joxson : Every Man in his Humour , act ii . sc . 1 . 8 See Chaucer , page 6 .
9 CHAPMAN : Widow's Tears , 1612 . A proverb in the time of Saint Bernard was
...
Page 38
I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena , the tears of
the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf . Act v . Sc . 1 . As night the life - inclining
stars best shows , So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose . Epilogue to ...
I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena , the tears of
the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf . Act v . Sc . 1 . As night the life - inclining
stars best shows , So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose . Epilogue to ...
Page 109
I'll example you with thievery : The sun ' s a thief , and with his great attraction
Robs the vast sea ; the moon's an arrant thief , And her pale fire she snatches
from the sun ; The sea ' s a thief , whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt
tears ...
I'll example you with thievery : The sun ' s a thief , and with his great attraction
Robs the vast sea ; the moon's an arrant thief , And her pale fire she snatches
from the sun ; The sea ' s a thief , whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt
tears ...
Page 118
... deep damnation of his taking - off ; And pity , like a naked new - born babe ,
Striding the blast , or heaven's cherubim , horsed Upon the sightless couriers of
the air , Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye , That tears shall drown the wind .
... deep damnation of his taking - off ; And pity , like a naked new - born babe ,
Striding the blast , or heaven's cherubim , horsed Upon the sightless couriers of
the air , Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye , That tears shall drown the wind .
Page 150
And often did beguile her of her tears , When I did speak of some distressful
stroke That my youth suffer'd . My story being done , She gave me for my pains a
world of sighs ; She swore , in faith , ' t was strange , ' t was passing strange , ' T
was ...
And often did beguile her of her tears , When I did speak of some distressful
stroke That my youth suffer'd . My story being done , She gave me for my pains a
world of sighs ; She swore , in faith , ' t was strange , ' t was passing strange , ' T
was ...
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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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