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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... song.1 Faerie Queene . Introduction . St. 1 . Book i . Canto i . St. 1 . A gentle knight was pricking on the plaine . O happy earth , Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread ! The noblest mind the best contentment has . A bold bad man ...
... song.1 Faerie Queene . Introduction . St. 1 . Book i . Canto i . St. 1 . A gentle knight was pricking on the plaine . O happy earth , Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread ! The noblest mind the best contentment has . A bold bad man ...
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... song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet . Ibid . High - erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.1 Arcadia . Book i . They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.2 ...
... song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet . Ibid . High - erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.1 Arcadia . Book i . They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.2 ...
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... song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena , the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf . As night the life - inclining stars best shows , So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose . Act v . Sc . 1 . Epilogue to ...
... song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena , the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf . As night the life - inclining stars best shows , So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose . Act v . Sc . 1 . Epilogue to ...
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... songs of Apollo . Love's Labour's Lost . Act v . Sc . 2 . But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which ... song , Ibid . Act ii . Sc . 1.8 And certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea - maid's music . 1 ...
... songs of Apollo . Love's Labour's Lost . Act v . Sc . 2 . But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which ... song , Ibid . Act ii . Sc . 1.8 And certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea - maid's music . 1 ...
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... song was , in all probability , a traditional one . " Collier says , " Doubtless it does not belong to Middleton more than to Shakespeare . " Dyce says , " There seems to be little doubt that ' Macbeth ' is of an earlier date than The ...
... song was , in all probability , a traditional one . " Collier says , " Doubtless it does not belong to Middleton more than to Shakespeare . " Dyce says , " There seems to be little doubt that ' Macbeth ' is of an earlier date than The ...
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