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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... thought better to incur the risk of erring on the side of fulness . " With the many additions to the English writers , the present edition contains selections from the French , and from the wit and wisdom of the ancients . A few pas ...
... thought better to incur the risk of erring on the side of fulness . " With the many additions to the English writers , the present edition contains selections from the French , and from the wit and wisdom of the ancients . A few pas ...
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... thought the travell long ; But eies and eares and ev'ry thought Were with his sweete perfections caught . Ibid . 1 This piece ( ascribed to Spenser ) was printed in The Phoenix ' Nest , 4to , 1593 , where it is anonymous . Todd has ...
... thought the travell long ; But eies and eares and ev'ry thought Were with his sweete perfections caught . Ibid . 1 This piece ( ascribed to Spenser ) was printed in The Phoenix ' Nest , 4to , 1593 , where it is anonymous . Todd has ...
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... thoughts come from the heart.- VAUVENARGUES : Maxim cxxvii . 2 He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts . - FLETCHER : Love's Cure , act iii . sc . 3 . 3 Many - headed multitude . - SHAKESPEARE : Coriolanus , act i . sc ...
... thoughts come from the heart.- VAUVENARGUES : Maxim cxxvii . 2 He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts . - FLETCHER : Love's Cure , act iii . sc . 3 . 3 Many - headed multitude . - SHAKESPEARE : Coriolanus , act i . sc ...
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Feed on her damask cheek : she pined in thought , And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a ... thought he had been valiant and so cunning in fence , I'ld have seen him damned ere I'ld have chal- lenged him . 1 ...
Feed on her damask cheek : she pined in thought , And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a ... thought he had been valiant and so cunning in fence , I'ld have seen him damned ere I'ld have chal- lenged him . 1 ...
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... thought upon one pair of English legs Did march three Frenchmen . Sc . 6 . You may as well say , that's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion . The hum of either army stilly sounds , That the fixed sentinels ...
... thought upon one pair of English legs Did march three Frenchmen . Sc . 6 . You may as well say , that's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion . The hum of either army stilly sounds , That the fixed sentinels ...
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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