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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... live . Ibid BISHOP STILL ( JOHN ) . 1543-1607 . I cannot eat but little meat , My stomach is not good ; But sure I think that I can drink With him that wears a hood . Gammer Gurton's Needle.2 Act . There is a very similar but anonymous ...
... live . Ibid BISHOP STILL ( JOHN ) . 1543-1607 . I cannot eat but little meat , My stomach is not good ; But sure I think that I can drink With him that wears a hood . Gammer Gurton's Needle.2 Act . There is a very similar but anonymous ...
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... live in snuff , will be put out . On the snuff of a candle the night before he died . -- Raleigh's Remains , p . 258 , ed . 1661 . Even such is time , that takes in trust Our youth , our joys , our all we have , And pays us but with age ...
... live in snuff , will be put out . On the snuff of a candle the night before he died . -- Raleigh's Remains , p . 258 , ed . 1661 . Even such is time , that takes in trust Our youth , our joys , our all we have , And pays us but with age ...
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... live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery . Book i JOHN LYLY . Circa 1553-1601 . Cupid and my Campaspe play'd At cards for kisses : Cupid paid . He stakes his quiver , bow , and arrows , His mother's doves , and team ...
... live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery . Book i JOHN LYLY . Circa 1553-1601 . Cupid and my Campaspe play'd At cards for kisses : Cupid paid . He stakes his quiver , bow , and arrows , His mother's doves , and team ...
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... lives In acts exemplary , not only win Ourselves good names , but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds , by which we live.a Who to himself is law no law doth need , Offends no law , and is a king indeed . Each natural agent ...
... lives In acts exemplary , not only win Ourselves good names , but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds , by which we live.a Who to himself is law no law doth need , Offends no law , and is a king indeed . Each natural agent ...
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... live . A very ancient and fish - like smell . Ibid . Act ii . Sc . 1 . Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows . Fer . Here's my hand . Mir . And mine , with my heart in ' t . He that dies pays all debts . Sc . 2 . Ibid . Act iii ...
... live . A very ancient and fish - like smell . Ibid . Act ii . Sc . 1 . Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows . Fer . Here's my hand . Mir . And mine , with my heart in ' t . He that dies pays all debts . Sc . 2 . Ibid . Act iii ...
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