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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... true , still swine eat all the draff . - SHAKESPEARE : Merry Wives of Windsor , act iv . sc . 2 . 10 Ewyl weed ys sone y - growe . - MS . Harleian , circa 1490 . An ill weed grows apace . - CHAPMAN : An Humorous Day's Mirth . - Great ...
... true , still swine eat all the draff . - SHAKESPEARE : Merry Wives of Windsor , act iv . sc . 2 . 10 Ewyl weed ys sone y - growe . - MS . Harleian , circa 1490 . An ill weed grows apace . - CHAPMAN : An Humorous Day's Mirth . - Great ...
Page 57
... true love never did run smooth . Ibid . Ibid . O , hell ! to choose love by another's eyes . Swift as a shadow , short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night , That in a spleen unfolds both heaven and earth , And ere ...
... true love never did run smooth . Ibid . Ibid . O , hell ! to choose love by another's eyes . Swift as a shadow , short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night , That in a spleen unfolds both heaven and earth , And ere ...
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... true , ' t is there That , like an eagle in a dove - cote , I Flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli : Alone I did it . Boy ! Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge . Act iv . Sc . 5 . Ibid . Act v . Sc . 3 . Sc . 6.3 Titus Andronicus . Act ...
... true , ' t is there That , like an eagle in a dove - cote , I Flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli : Alone I did it . Boy ! Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge . Act iv . Sc . 5 . Ibid . Act v . Sc . 3 . Sc . 6.3 Titus Andronicus . Act ...
Page 106
... true qualities : For nought so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give , Nor aught so good but strain'd from that fair use Revolts from true birth , stumbling on abuse : Virtue itself turns vice ...
... true qualities : For nought so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give , Nor aught so good but strain'd from that fair use Revolts from true birth , stumbling on abuse : Virtue itself turns vice ...
Page 107
... true as steel.1 Ibid . Ibid . These violent delights have violent ends . Sc . 6 . Ibid . Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow . Here comes the lady ! O , so light a foot Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint . Ibid . Thy head is ...
... true as steel.1 Ibid . Ibid . These violent delights have violent ends . Sc . 6 . Ibid . Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow . Here comes the lady ! O , so light a foot Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint . Ibid . Thy head is ...
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