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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... stars best shows , So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose . Act v . Sc . 1 . Epilogue to Translations . Promise is most given when the least is said . Musaus of Hero and Leander . WILLIAM WARNER . 1558-1609 . With that she dasht ...
... stars best shows , So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose . Act v . Sc . 1 . Epilogue to Translations . Promise is most given when the least is said . Musaus of Hero and Leander . WILLIAM WARNER . 1558-1609 . With that she dasht ...
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... stars . Ibid . Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight , And burned is Apollo's laurel bough , 5 That sometime grew within this learned man . Ibid . 1 To shallow rivers , to whose falls Melodious birds sings madrigals ...
... stars . Ibid . Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight , And burned is Apollo's laurel bough , 5 That sometime grew within this learned man . Ibid . 1 To shallow rivers , to whose falls Melodious birds sings madrigals ...
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... stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea - maid's music . 1 Maidens withering on the stalk . stanza 1 . - - Ibid . WORDSWORTH : Personal Talk , 2 " Ever I could read , " Dyce , Knight , Singer , and White . 8 Act ii . sc . 2 ...
... stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea - maid's music . 1 Maidens withering on the stalk . stanza 1 . - - Ibid . WORDSWORTH : Personal Talk , 2 " Ever I could read , " Dyce , Knight , Singer , and White . 8 Act ii . sc . 2 ...
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... stars keep not their motion in one sphere . Sc . 4 . This earth that bears thee dead Bears not alive so stout a gentleman . Ibid . Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave , But not remember'd in thy epitaph ! Ibid . I could have ...
... stars keep not their motion in one sphere . Sc . 4 . This earth that bears thee dead Bears not alive so stout a gentleman . Ibid . Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave , But not remember'd in thy epitaph ! Ibid . I could have ...
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... stars , And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night , And pay no worship to the garish sun . Beautiful tyrant ! fiend angelical ! Ibid . Sc . 2 . Ibid . Was ever book containing such vile ...
... stars , And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night , And pay no worship to the garish sun . Beautiful tyrant ! fiend angelical ! Ibid . Sc . 2 . Ibid . Was ever book containing such vile ...
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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