Familiar Quotations: a Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature |
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Many maxims of the most famous writers of our language , and numberless
curious and happy turns from orators and poets , have knocked at the door , and
it was hard to deny them . But to admit these simply on their own merits , without ...
Many maxims of the most famous writers of our language , and numberless
curious and happy turns from orators and poets , have knocked at the door , and
it was hard to deny them . But to admit these simply on their own merits , without ...
Page 59
... in a fine frenzy rolling , Doth glance from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven
; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown , the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name .
... in a fine frenzy rolling , Doth glance from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven
; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown , the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name .
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... manly voice , Turning again toward childish treble , pipes And whistles in his
sound . Last scene of all , That ends this strange eventful history , Is second
childishness and mere oblivion , Sans teeth , sans eyes , sans taste , sans
everything .
... manly voice , Turning again toward childish treble , pipes And whistles in his
sound . Last scene of all , That ends this strange eventful history , Is second
childishness and mere oblivion , Sans teeth , sans eyes , sans taste , sans
everything .
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Sc . 3 . green fields . Turn him to any cause of policy , The Gordian knot of it he
will unloose , Familiar as his garter : that when he speaks , The air , a chartered
libertine , is still . King Henry V. Act i . Sc . 1 . Base is the slave that pays . Act ii .
Sc . 3 . green fields . Turn him to any cause of policy , The Gordian knot of it he
will unloose , Familiar as his garter : that when he speaks , The air , a chartered
libertine , is still . King Henry V. Act i . Sc . 1 . Base is the slave that pays . Act ii .
Page 94
... of bliss and joy ! Part III . Act i . Sc . 2 . And many strokes , though with a little
axe , Hew down and fell the hardest - timbered oak . Act ü . Sc . 1 . 1 See
Marlowe , page 40 . The smallest worm will turn , being trodden on . 94
SHAKESPEARE .
... of bliss and joy ! Part III . Act i . Sc . 2 . And many strokes , though with a little
axe , Hew down and fell the hardest - timbered oak . Act ü . Sc . 1 . 1 See
Marlowe , page 40 . The smallest worm will turn , being trodden on . 94
SHAKESPEARE .
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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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