Familiar Quotations: a Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature |
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5 Look ere thou leap . – In Tottel's Miscellany , 1557 ; and in Tusser's Fire
Hundred Points of Good Husbandry . Of Wiring an • l Thriving . 1573 . Thou
shouldst have looked before thou badst leapt . — Joxson , CHIAPMAN ,
MARSTON ...
5 Look ere thou leap . – In Tottel's Miscellany , 1557 ; and in Tusser's Fire
Hundred Points of Good Husbandry . Of Wiring an • l Thriving . 1573 . Thou
shouldst have looked before thou badst leapt . — Joxson , CHIAPMAN ,
MARSTON ...
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Historie of the World . Preface . O eloquent , just , and mightie Death ! whom none
could advise , thou hast perswaded ; what none hath dared , thou hast done ; and
whom all the world hath flattered , 1 Methought I saw my late espoused saint .
Historie of the World . Preface . O eloquent , just , and mightie Death ! whom none
could advise , thou hast perswaded ; what none hath dared , thou hast done ; and
whom all the world hath flattered , 1 Methought I saw my late espoused saint .
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When faith is kneeling by his bed of death , And innocence is closing up his eyes
, Now if thou wouldst , when all have given him over , From death to life thou
might'st him yet recover . Ideas . An Allusion to the Eaglets . lxi . CHRISTOPHER
...
When faith is kneeling by his bed of death , And innocence is closing up his eyes
, Now if thou wouldst , when all have given him over , From death to life thou
might'st him yet recover . Ideas . An Allusion to the Eaglets . lxi . CHRISTOPHER
...
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O base Hungarian wight ! wilt thou the spigot wield ? Sc . 3 . “ Convey , ” the wise
it call . ... Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English . Sc
. 4 . We burn daylight . Act ii . Sc . 1 . There's the humour of it . Ibid . Faith , thou ...
O base Hungarian wight ! wilt thou the spigot wield ? Sc . 3 . “ Convey , ” the wise
it call . ... Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English . Sc
. 4 . We burn daylight . Act ii . Sc . 1 . There's the humour of it . Ibid . Faith , thou ...
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1612 . A noble farce , wherein kings , republics , and emperors have for so many
ages played their parts , and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre
. — MONTAIGNE : Of the most Excellent Men . Blow , blow , thou winter wind !
1612 . A noble farce , wherein kings , republics , and emperors have for so many
ages played their parts , and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre
. — MONTAIGNE : Of the most Excellent Men . Blow , blow , thou winter wind !
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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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