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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... dark and silent grave , When we have wandered all our ways , Shuts up the story of our days . But from this earth , this grave , this dust , My God shall raise me up , I trust ! Written the night before his death . - Found in his Bible ...
... dark and silent grave , When we have wandered all our ways , Shuts up the story of our days . But from this earth , this grave , this dust , My God shall raise me up , I trust ! Written the night before his death . - Found in his Bible ...
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... darkness born . 1 Prosperum ac felix scelus Virtus vocatur To Delia . Sonnet 51 . ( Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue ) . SENECA : Herc . Furens , ii . 250 . 2 The soul's dark cottage , batter'd and decay'd , Lets in new ...
... darkness born . 1 Prosperum ac felix scelus Virtus vocatur To Delia . Sonnet 51 . ( Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue ) . SENECA : Herc . Furens , ii . 250 . 2 The soul's dark cottage , batter'd and decay'd , Lets in new ...
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... dark backward and abysm of time ? I , thus neglecting worldly ends , all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind . Like one Who having into truth , by telling of it , Made such a sinner of his memory , Ibid . Sc . 2 . Ibid ...
... dark backward and abysm of time ? I , thus neglecting worldly ends , all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind . Like one Who having into truth , by telling of it , Made such a sinner of his memory , Ibid . Sc . 2 . Ibid ...
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... darkness is a gentleman.1 Ibid . Poor Tom's a - cold . Ibid . I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban . Ibid . Child Rowland to the dark tower came , ― His word was still , Fie , foh , and fum , I smell the blood of a British man ...
... darkness is a gentleman.1 Ibid . Poor Tom's a - cold . Ibid . I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban . Ibid . Child Rowland to the dark tower came , ― His word was still , Fie , foh , and fum , I smell the blood of a British man ...
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... dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales , so is the other . Of Death . Revenge is a kind of wild justice , which the more man's nature runs to , the more ought law to weed it Of Revenge . out . It was a high ...
... dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales , so is the other . Of Death . Revenge is a kind of wild justice , which the more man's nature runs to , the more ought law to weed it Of Revenge . out . It was a high ...
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