Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern LiteratureMacmillan and Company, 1907 - 1158 pages |
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... Nature by her mother - wit1 Could frame in earth . Faerie Queene . Book iv . Canto x . St. 21 . Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small . Book v . Canto ii . St. 43 . Who will not mercie unto others show , How can he mercy ...
... Nature by her mother - wit1 Could frame in earth . Faerie Queene . Book iv . Canto x . St. 21 . Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small . Book v . Canto ii . St. 43 . Who will not mercie unto others show , How can he mercy ...
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... Nature made her ; beauty cost her nothing , Her virtues were so rare . I tell thee Love is Nature's second sun , Ibid . All Fools . Act i . Sc . 1 . Causing a spring of virtues where he shines . Cornelia . What flowers are these ...
... Nature made her ; beauty cost her nothing , Her virtues were so rare . I tell thee Love is Nature's second sun , Ibid . All Fools . Act i . Sc . 1 . Causing a spring of virtues where he shines . Cornelia . What flowers are these ...
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... Nature teaches beasts to know their friends . Coriolanus . Act ii . Sc . 1 . A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in ' t.1 Many - headed multitude.2 I thank you for your voices thank you : Your most sweet voices . Hear ...
... Nature teaches beasts to know their friends . Coriolanus . Act ii . Sc . 1 . A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in ' t.1 Many - headed multitude.2 I thank you for your voices thank you : Your most sweet voices . Hear ...
Page 115
... nature must obey necessity . Ibid . Brutus . Then I shall see thee again ? Ghost . Ay , at Philippi . Brutus . Why , I will see thee at Philippi , then . Ibid . But for your words , they rob the Hybla bees , And leave them honeyless ...
... nature must obey necessity . Ibid . Brutus . Then I shall see thee again ? Ghost . Ay , at Philippi . Brutus . Why , I will see thee at Philippi , then . Ibid . But for your words , they rob the Hybla bees , And leave them honeyless ...
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... nature ; What thou wouldst highly , That wouldst thou holily ; wouldst not play false , And yet wouldst wrongly win . Ibid . That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose . Your face , my thane , is as a book where men ...
... nature ; What thou wouldst highly , That wouldst thou holily ; wouldst not play false , And yet wouldst wrongly win . Ibid . That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose . Your face , my thane , is as a book where men ...
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