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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... Fear not to touch the best , The truth shall be thy warrant : Go , since I needs must die , And give the world the lie . The Silent Lover . Ibid . The Lie . 1 Altissima quæque flumina minimo sono labi ( The deepest rivers flow with the ...
... Fear not to touch the best , The truth shall be thy warrant : Go , since I needs must die , And give the world the lie . The Silent Lover . Ibid . The Lie . 1 Altissima quæque flumina minimo sono labi ( The deepest rivers flow with the ...
Page 26
... fear to die ; but courage stout , Rather than live in snuff , will be put out . On the snuff of a candle the night before he died . - Raleigh's Remains , p . 258 , ed . 1661 . Even such is time , that takes in trust Our youth , our joys ...
... fear to die ; but courage stout , Rather than live in snuff , will be put out . On the snuff of a candle the night before he died . - Raleigh's Remains , p . 258 , ed . 1661 . Even such is time , that takes in trust Our youth , our joys ...
Page 49
... fear of death . Measure for Measure . Act iii . Sc . 1 . The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.1 Ibid . Virtue is bold , and goodness never fearful . Ibia . There , at the moated grange , resides this dejected Mariana.2 ...
... fear of death . Measure for Measure . Act iii . Sc . 1 . The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.1 Ibid . Virtue is bold , and goodness never fearful . Ibia . There , at the moated grange , resides this dejected Mariana.2 ...
Page 59
... fear , How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! Ibid . For never anything can be amiss , When simpleness and duty tender it . Ibid . The true beginning of our end.1 Ibid . The best in this kind are but shadows . Ibid . A very gentle beast ...
... fear , How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! Ibid . For never anything can be amiss , When simpleness and duty tender it . Ibid . The true beginning of our end.1 Ibid . The best in this kind are but shadows . Ibid . A very gentle beast ...
Page 72
... fear boys with bugs . And do as adversaries do in law , Strive mightily , but eat and drink as friends . Sc . 2 . Act i . Sc . 1 . Who wooed in haste , and means to wed at leisure.3 Ibid . Sc . 2 . Ibid . Ibid . Act iii . Sc . 2 . 1 You ...
... fear boys with bugs . And do as adversaries do in law , Strive mightily , but eat and drink as friends . Sc . 2 . Act i . Sc . 1 . Who wooed in haste , and means to wed at leisure.3 Ibid . Sc . 2 . Ibid . Ibid . Act iii . Sc . 2 . 1 You ...
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