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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... head . -RABELAIS : bk . iii . ch . xxxi . Dives and Pauper , 1493. GASCOIGNE : Poesies , 1575. POPE : Horace , book i . Ep . vii . line 24. FIELDING : Covent Garden Tragedy , act v . sc . 1 . BICKERSTAFF : Love in a Village , act iii ...
... head . -RABELAIS : bk . iii . ch . xxxi . Dives and Pauper , 1493. GASCOIGNE : Poesies , 1575. POPE : Horace , book i . Ep . vii . line 24. FIELDING : Covent Garden Tragedy , act v . sc . 1 . BICKERSTAFF : Love in a Village , act iii ...
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... head to the sole of his foot , 1 he is all mirth . Sc . 2 . Every one can master a grief but he that has it . Ibid . Are you good men and true ? Sc . 3 . To be a well - favoured man is the gift of fortune ; but to write and read comes ...
... head to the sole of his foot , 1 he is all mirth . Sc . 2 . Every one can master a grief but he that has it . Ibid . Are you good men and true ? Sc . 3 . To be a well - favoured man is the gift of fortune ; but to write and read comes ...
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... head ; And this our life , exempt from public haunt , Finds tongues in trees , books in the running brooks , Sermons in stones , and good in every thing . As You Like It . Act ii . Sc . Z The big round tears Coursed one another down his ...
... head ; And this our life , exempt from public haunt , Finds tongues in trees , books in the running brooks , Sermons in stones , and good in every thing . As You Like It . Act ii . Sc . Z The big round tears Coursed one another down his ...
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... head that wears a crown . Act iii . Sc . 1 . Ibid . Ibid . Death , as the Psalmist saith , is certain to all ; all shall die . How a good yoke of bullocks at Stamford fair ? Sc . 2 . Accommodated ; that is , when a man is , as they say ...
... head that wears a crown . Act iii . Sc . 1 . Ibid . Ibid . Death , as the Psalmist saith , is certain to all ; all shall die . How a good yoke of bullocks at Stamford fair ? Sc . 2 . Accommodated ; that is , when a man is , as they say ...
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... head fantastically carved upon it with a knife . We are ready to try our fortunes To the last man . Ibid . Act iv . Sc . 2 . I may justly say , with the hook - nosed fellow of Rome , " I came , saw , and overcame . " Sc . 3 . He hath a ...
... head fantastically carved upon it with a knife . We are ready to try our fortunes To the last man . Ibid . Act iv . Sc . 2 . I may justly say , with the hook - nosed fellow of Rome , " I came , saw , and overcame . " Sc . 3 . He hath a ...
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