Familiar Quotations: a Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature |
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1 Also in Troilus and Cresseide , line 1587 . To make a virtue of necessity . --
SHAKESPEARE : Two Gentlemen of Verona , act ir . sc . 2. MATTHEW HENRY :
Comm . on Ps . xxxvii . DRYDEN : Palamon and Arcite . In the additions of
Hadrianus ...
1 Also in Troilus and Cresseide , line 1587 . To make a virtue of necessity . --
SHAKESPEARE : Two Gentlemen of Verona , act ir . sc . 2. MATTHEW HENRY :
Comm . on Ps . xxxvii . DRYDEN : Palamon and Arcite . In the additions of
Hadrianus ...
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An ill weed grows apace . An Humorous Day's Mirth . Black is a pearl in a
woman's eye . 4 Ibid . Exceeding fair she was not ; and yet fair In that she never
studied to be fairer Than Nature made her ; beauty cost her nothing , Her virtues
were so ...
An ill weed grows apace . An Humorous Day's Mirth . Black is a pearl in a
woman's eye . 4 Ibid . Exceeding fair she was not ; and yet fair In that she never
studied to be fairer Than Nature made her ; beauty cost her nothing , Her virtues
were so ...
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Heaven doth with us as we with torches do , Not light them for themselves ; for if
our virtues Did not go forth of us , ' t were all alike As if we had them not . Spirits
are not finely touch'd But to fine issues , nor Nature never lends The smallest ...
Heaven doth with us as we with torches do , Not light them for themselves ; for if
our virtues Did not go forth of us , ' t were all alike As if we had them not . Spirits
are not finely touch'd But to fine issues , nor Nature never lends The smallest ...
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Some rise by sin , and some by virtue fall . Ibid . This will last out a night in Russia
, When nights are longest there . Ibid Condemn the fault , and not the actor of it ?
Sc . 2 . No ceremony that to great ones ' longs , Not the king's crown , nor the ...
Some rise by sin , and some by virtue fall . Ibid . This will last out a night in Russia
, When nights are longest there . Ibid Condemn the fault , and not the actor of it ?
Sc . 2 . No ceremony that to great ones ' longs , Not the king's crown , nor the ...
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For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it ,
but being lack'd and lost , Why , then we rack the value ; then we find The virtue
that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours . Much Ado about Nothing
...
For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it ,
but being lack'd and lost , Why , then we rack the value ; then we find The virtue
that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours . Much Ado about Nothing
...
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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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