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His youth ' gainst time and age hath ever spurned , But spurned in vain ; youth
waneth by encreasing . Sonnet . Polyhymnia . 1 Let us consider the reason of the
case . For nothing is law that is not reason . Sir John Powell : Coggs vs. Bernard ...
His youth ' gainst time and age hath ever spurned , But spurned in vain ; youth
waneth by encreasing . Sonnet . Polyhymnia . 1 Let us consider the reason of the
case . For nothing is law that is not reason . Sir John Powell : Coggs vs. Bernard ...
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Even such is time , that takes in trust Our youth , our joys , our all we have , And
pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave , When we have
wandered all our ways , Shuts up the story of our days . But from this earth , this ...
Even such is time , that takes in trust Our youth , our joys , our all we have , And
pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave , When we have
wandered all our ways , Shuts up the story of our days . But from this earth , this ...
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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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Ibid . Like a fair house , built on another man's ground . Ibid . We have some salt
of our youth in us . Sc . 3 1 Familiarity breeds contempt . - PUBLIUS SYRUS :
Maxim 640 . I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.1 The SHAKESPEARE . 45
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Ibid . Like a fair house , built on another man's ground . Ibid . We have some salt
of our youth in us . Sc . 3 1 Familiarity breeds contempt . - PUBLIUS SYRUS :
Maxim 640 . I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.1 The SHAKESPEARE . 45
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Ibid . I am not only witty in myself , but the cause that wit is in other men . Sc . 2 . A
rascally yea - forsooth knave . Ibid . Some smack of age in you , some relish of
the saltness of time . Ibid . We that are in the vaward of our youth . Ibid .
Ibid . I am not only witty in myself , but the cause that wit is in other men . Sc . 2 . A
rascally yea - forsooth knave . Ibid . Some smack of age in you , some relish of
the saltness of time . Ibid . We that are in the vaward of our youth . Ibid .
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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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