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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... : Citizen of the World , letter 71 . Spectatum veniunt , veniunt spectentur ut ipsa ( They come to see ; they come that they themselves may be seen ) . —OVID : The Art of Love , . 99 . I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke , CHAUCER . 3.
... : Citizen of the World , letter 71 . Spectatum veniunt , veniunt spectentur ut ipsa ( They come to see ; they come that they themselves may be seen ) . —OVID : The Art of Love , . 99 . I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke , CHAUCER . 3.
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I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke , That hath but on hole for to sterten to.1 Canterbury Tales . The Wif of Bathes Prologue . Line 6154 . Loke who that is most vertuous alway , Prive and apert , and most entendeth ay To do the gentil ...
I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke , That hath but on hole for to sterten to.1 Canterbury Tales . The Wif of Bathes Prologue . Line 6154 . Loke who that is most vertuous alway , Prive and apert , and most entendeth ay To do the gentil ...
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... hold while I may , fast binde , fast finde . 3 Ibid . And while I at length debate and beate the bush , There shall steppe in other men and catch the burdes . * Ibid . While betweene two stooles my taile goe to the ground.5 So many ...
... hold while I may , fast binde , fast finde . 3 Ibid . And while I at length debate and beate the bush , There shall steppe in other men and catch the burdes . * Ibid . While betweene two stooles my taile goe to the ground.5 So many ...
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... Hold their noses to grinstone . " Ibid . Better to give then to take . Ibid . When all candles bee out , all cats be gray . Ibid . No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth . Ibid . - 1 Happy man be his dole SHAKESPEARE : Merry ...
... Hold their noses to grinstone . " Ibid . Better to give then to take . Ibid . When all candles bee out , all cats be gray . Ibid . No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth . Ibid . - 1 Happy man be his dole SHAKESPEARE : Merry ...
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... hold with the hare and run with the hound . 10 1 RABELAIS : book iv . chap . liv . At my fingers ' ends . - SHAKESPEARE : Twelfth Night , act i . sc . 3 . 2 The origin of the word " sleveless , " in the sense of unprofitable , has ...
... hold with the hare and run with the hound . 10 1 RABELAIS : book iv . chap . liv . At my fingers ' ends . - SHAKESPEARE : Twelfth Night , act i . sc . 3 . 2 The origin of the word " sleveless , " in the sense of unprofitable , has ...
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