Familiar Quotations: a Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature |
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Thomas Heywood : A Woman Killed with Kindne88 . 4 Let the world slide .
SHAKESPEARE : Taming of the Shrer , ind . 1 ; and , Let the world slip , ind . 2 . 6
Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn ? -- SHAKESPEARE : 1 Henry IV . act iii .
sc . 2 .
Thomas Heywood : A Woman Killed with Kindne88 . 4 Let the world slide .
SHAKESPEARE : Taming of the Shrer , ind . 1 ; and , Let the world slip , ind . 2 . 6
Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn ? -- SHAKESPEARE : 1 Henry IV . act iii .
sc . 2 .
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The Blind Beggar of Alexandria . 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 ...
The Blind Beggar of Alexandria . 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 ...
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Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel ; her wing'd spirit Is
feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words . The Gentleman Usher . Act iv . Sc . 1 .
To put a girdle round about the world.3 Bussy D'Ambuis . Act i . Sc . 1 .
Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel ; her wing'd spirit Is
feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words . The Gentleman Usher . Act iv . Sc . 1 .
To put a girdle round about the world.3 Bussy D'Ambuis . Act i . Sc . 1 .
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Home - keeping youth have ever homely wits . The Two Gentlemen of Verona .
Act i . Sc . 1 . I have no other but a woman's reason : I think him so , because I
think him so . Sc , 2 . 0 , how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of
an ...
Home - keeping youth have ever homely wits . The Two Gentlemen of Verona .
Act i . Sc . 1 . I have no other but a woman's reason : I think him so , because I
think him so . Sc , 2 . 0 , how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of
an ...
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These are begot in the ventricle of memory , nourished in the womb of pia mater ,
and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion . Ibid . For where is any author in
the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye ? Learning is but an adjunct to
...
These are begot in the ventricle of memory , nourished in the womb of pia mater ,
and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion . Ibid . For where is any author in
the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye ? Learning is but an adjunct to
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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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