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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Page 38
... 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 Translations . Promise is most given when the least is ...
... 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 Translations . Promise is most given when the least is ...
Page 67
... tears Coursed one another down his innocent nose In piteous chase . " Poor deer , " quoth he , " thou makest a testament Ibid . As worldlings do , giving thy sum of more To that which had too much . " Sweep on , you fat and greasy ...
... tears Coursed one another down his innocent nose In piteous chase . " Poor deer , " quoth he , " thou makest a testament Ibid . As worldlings do , giving thy sum of more To that which had too much . " Sweep on , you fat and greasy ...
Page 109
... tears ; the earth's a thief , That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen From general excrement : each thing's a thief . Life's uncertain voyage . ibid Act v . Sc . 1 As proper men as ever trod upon neat's leather . SHAKESPEARE . 109.
... tears ; the earth's a thief , That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen From general excrement : each thing's a thief . Life's uncertain voyage . ibid Act v . Sc . 1 As proper men as ever trod upon neat's leather . SHAKESPEARE . 109.
Page 113
... tears , prepare to shed them now . Ibid . See what a rent the envious Casca made . Ibid . Ibid This was the most unkindest cut of all . 1 Though last not least . - SPENSER : Colin Clout , line 444 . Great Cæsar fell . O , what a fall ...
... tears , prepare to shed them now . Ibid . See what a rent the envious Casca made . Ibid . Ibid This was the most unkindest cut of all . 1 Though last not least . - SPENSER : Colin Clout , line 444 . Great Cæsar fell . O , what a fall ...
Page 128
... tears . Ibid . A beast , that wants discourse of reason . Ibid . My father's brother , but no more like my father Than I to Hercules . Ibid . It is not nor it cannot come to good . Ibid . Thrift , thrift , Horatio ! the funeral baked ...
... tears . Ibid . A beast , that wants discourse of reason . Ibid . My father's brother , but no more like my father Than I to Hercules . Ibid . It is not nor it cannot come to good . Ibid . Thrift , thrift , Horatio ! the funeral baked ...
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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