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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... bear the title of this collection , after passing through eight editions , each enlarged , now culminates in its ninth , and with it , closes its tentative life . — This extract from the Preface of the fourth edition is applicable to ...
... bear the title of this collection , after passing through eight editions , each enlarged , now culminates in its ninth , and with it , closes its tentative life . — This extract from the Preface of the fourth edition is applicable to ...
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... bear . The Comedy of Errors . A wretched soul , bruised with adversity . Every why hath a wherefore.1 Ibid Act i Sc . 1 Act ii . Sc 1 . Sc . 2 Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast . One Pinch , a hungry lean - faced villain ...
... bear . The Comedy of Errors . A wretched soul , bruised with adversity . Every why hath a wherefore.1 Ibid Act i Sc . 1 Act ii . Sc 1 . Sc . 2 Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast . One Pinch , a hungry lean - faced villain ...
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... bear ! A Midsummer Night's Dream , Act v . Sc . 1 . 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 ...
... bear ! A Midsummer Night's Dream , Act v . Sc . 1 . 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 ...
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... bear him . He hates our sacred nation , and he rails , Even there where merchants most do congregate . The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose . Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . A goodly apple rotten at the heart : O , what a goodly outside ...
... bear him . He hates our sacred nation , and he rails , Even there where merchants most do congregate . The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose . Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . A goodly apple rotten at the heart : O , what a goodly outside ...
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... bears the better temper ; Between two horses , which doth bear him best ; Between two girls , which hath the merriest eye , — I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgment ; But in these nice sharp quillets of the law , Good faith , I ...
... bears the better temper ; Between two horses , which doth bear him best ; Between two girls , which hath the merriest eye , — I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgment ; But in these nice sharp quillets of the law , Good faith , I ...
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Anatomy of Melancholy angels BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER beauty better blessed Book breath Cæsar Canto Chap Chaucer Childe Harold's Pilgrimage dark dead dear death Devil DIOGENES LAERTIUS divine Don Quixote doth dream Dryden earth Epistle eyes Fable fair fear flower fool Frag give glory grave hand happy hast hath heart heaven Henry Heywood honour hope Hudibras Ibia Ibid JOHN King Lady light Line live look Lord lost man's Maxim melancholy mind morning Nature ne'er never night numbers o'er pleasure Plutarch poet Pope proverb PUBLIUS SYRUS Richard III rose Sect Shakespeare sing sleep smile song Sonnet sorrow soul Speech spirit Stanza stars sweet Tale tears thee Themistocles There's thine things THOMAS HEYWOOD thou art thought tongue truth unto viii virtue wind wise woman words young youth