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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... dead men shall goe long barefoote . I pray thee let me and my fellow have A haire of the dog that bit us last night . " But in deede , Ibid . A friend is never knowne till a man have neede . Ibid This wonder ( as wonders last ) lasted ...
... dead men shall goe long barefoote . I pray thee let me and my fellow have A haire of the dog that bit us last night . " But in deede , Ibid . A friend is never knowne till a man have neede . Ibid This wonder ( as wonders last ) lasted ...
Page 83
... dead bodies by , He called them untaught knaves , unmannerly , To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility . Ibid . God save the mark . Ibid . And telling me , the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti for ...
... dead bodies by , He called them untaught knaves , unmannerly , To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility . Ibid . God save the mark . Ibid . And telling me , the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti for ...
Page 86
... me I had unloaded all the gibbets and pressed the dead bodies . No eye hath seen such scarecrows . I'll not march through Coventry with them , that's flat : nay , and the C villains march wide betwixt the legs , as if they 86 SHAKESPEARE .
... me I had unloaded all the gibbets and pressed the dead bodies . No eye hath seen such scarecrows . I'll not march through Coventry with them , that's flat : nay , and the C villains march wide betwixt the legs , as if they 86 SHAKESPEARE .
Page 87
... dead . But will it not live with the living ? no . Why ? detraction will not suffer it . Therefore I'll none of it . Honour is a mere scutcheon . And so ends my catechism . Ibid . Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere . Sc . 4 ...
... dead . But will it not live with the living ? no . Why ? detraction will not suffer it . Therefore I'll none of it . Honour is a mere scutcheon . And so ends my catechism . Ibid . Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere . Sc . 4 ...
Page 88
... dead in look , so woe - begone , Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night , And would have told him half his Troy was burnt . Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office , and his tongue . Sounds ever after as a ...
... dead in look , so woe - begone , Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night , And would have told him half his Troy was burnt . Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office , and his tongue . Sounds ever after as a ...
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