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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... spirit before a fall . - Proverbs xvi . 18 . Pryde goeth before , and shame cometh behynde .. Circa 1510 . - Treatise of a Gallant . 8 She looks as if butter would not melt in her mouth . - SWIFT : Polite Conversation . 9 ' Tis old ...
... spirit before a fall . - Proverbs xvi . 18 . Pryde goeth before , and shame cometh behynde .. Circa 1510 . - Treatise of a Gallant . 8 She looks as if butter would not melt in her mouth . - SWIFT : Polite Conversation . 9 ' Tis old ...
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... spirit have so fair a house , Good things will strive to dwell with ' t . Gon . Here is everything advantageous to ... spirits , and Are melted into air , into thin air : And , like the baseless fabric of this vision , The cloud - capp'd ...
... spirit have so fair a house , Good things will strive to dwell with ' t . Gon . Here is everything advantageous to ... spirits , and Are melted into air , into thin air : And , like the baseless fabric of this vision , The cloud - capp'd ...
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... spirit chased than enjoy'd . How like a younker or a prodigal The scarfed bark puts from her native bay , Hugg'd and embraced by the strumpet wind ! How like the prodigal doth she return , With over - weather'd ribs and ragged sails ...
... spirit chased than enjoy'd . How like a younker or a prodigal The scarfed bark puts from her native bay , Hugg'd and embraced by the strumpet wind ! How like the prodigal doth she return , With over - weather'd ribs and ragged sails ...
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... spirit as the month of May , And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer . I saw young Harry , with his beaver on , His cuisses on his thighs , gallantly arm'd , Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury , And vaulted with such ease into his ...
... spirit as the month of May , And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer . I saw young Harry , with his beaver on , His cuisses on his thighs , gallantly arm'd , Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury , And vaulted with such ease into his ...
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... spirit as soon as Cæsar . Now , in the names of all the gods at once , Upon what meat doth this our Cæsar feed , That he is grown so great ? Age , thou art shamed ! Rome , thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods ! Ibid There was a ...
... spirit as soon as Cæsar . Now , in the names of all the gods at once , Upon what meat doth this our Cæsar feed , That he is grown so great ? Age , thou art shamed ! Rome , thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods ! Ibid There was a ...
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Anatomy of Melancholy angels BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER beauty better blessed Book breath Cæsar Canto Chap Chaucer Childe Harold's Pilgrimage dark dead dear death Devil DIOGENES LAERTIUS divine Don Quixote doth dream Dryden earth Epistle eyes Fable fair fear flower fool Frag give glory grave hand happy hast hath heart heaven Henry Heywood honour hope Hudibras Ibia Ibid JOHN King Lady light Line live look Lord lost man's Maxim melancholy mind morning Nature ne'er never night numbers o'er pleasure Plutarch poet Pope proverb PUBLIUS SYRUS Richard III rose Sect Shakespeare sing sleep smile song Sonnet sorrow soul Speech spirit Stanza stars sweet Tale tears thee Themistocles There's thine things THOMAS HEYWOOD thou art thought tongue truth unto viii virtue wind wise woman words young youth