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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... turns from orators and poets , have knocked at the door , and it was hard to deny them . But to admit these simply on their own merits , without assurance that the general reader would readily recognize them as old friends , was aside ...
... turns from orators and poets , have knocked at the door , and it was hard to deny them . But to admit these simply on their own merits , without assurance that the general reader would readily recognize them as old friends , was aside ...
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... Turning again toward childish treble , pipes And whistles in his sound . Last scene of all , That ends this strange eventful history , Is second childishness and mere oblivion , Sans teeth , sans eyes , sans taste , sans everything . 1 ...
... Turning again toward childish treble , pipes And whistles in his sound . Last scene of all , That ends this strange eventful history , Is second childishness and mere oblivion , Sans teeth , sans eyes , sans taste , sans everything . 1 ...
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... turn and wind a fiery Pegasus And witch the world with noble horsemanship . The cankers of a calm world and a long peace . Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . Act iv . Sc . 1 . Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . Sc . 2 . A mad fellow met me on the way and told me I ...
... turn and wind a fiery Pegasus And witch the world with noble horsemanship . The cankers of a calm world and a long peace . Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . Act iv . Sc . 1 . Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . Sc . 2 . A mad fellow met me on the way and told me I ...
Page 90
... Sc . 4 in Dyce , Singer , Staunton , and White . 2 See Heywood , page 20 . sc . 5 . Act i . Sc . 1 . Ill blows the wind that profits nobody . — Henry VI . part iii . act ii . Turn him to any cause of policy , The Gordian 90 SHAKESPEARE .
... Sc . 4 in Dyce , Singer , Staunton , and White . 2 See Heywood , page 20 . sc . 5 . Act i . Sc . 1 . Ill blows the wind that profits nobody . — Henry VI . part iii . act ii . Turn him to any cause of policy , The Gordian 90 SHAKESPEARE .
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... Turn him to any cause of policy , The Gordian knot of it he will unloose , Familiar as his garter : that when he ... turning o ' the tide . Sc . 3 . His nose was as sharp as a pen , and a ' babbled of green fields . As cold as any stone ...
... Turn him to any cause of policy , The Gordian knot of it he will unloose , Familiar as his garter : that when he ... turning o ' the tide . Sc . 3 . His nose was as sharp as a pen , and a ' babbled of green fields . As cold as any stone ...
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