Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern LiteratureLittle, Brown,, 1911 - 1156 pages |
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... death . — Found in his Bible in the Gate - house at Westminster . Shall I , like an hermit , dwell On a rock or in a cell ? Poem . If she undervalue me , What care I how fair she be ? 2 Ibid . If she seem not chaste to me , What care I ...
... death . — Found in his Bible in the Gate - house at Westminster . Shall I , like an hermit , dwell On a rock or in a cell ? Poem . If she undervalue me , What care I how fair she be ? 2 Ibid . If she seem not chaste to me , What care I ...
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... death , And innocence is closing up his eyes , Nymphidia . Now if thou wouldst , when all have given him over , From death to life thou might'st him yet recover . Ideas . An Allusion to the Eaglets . lxi . CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE . 1565 ...
... death , And innocence is closing up his eyes , Nymphidia . Now if thou wouldst , when all have given him over , From death to life thou might'st him yet recover . Ideas . An Allusion to the Eaglets . lxi . CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE . 1565 ...
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... death . King John , act v . sc . 7 . There , swan - like , let me sing and die . - BYRON : Don Juan , canto iii . st . 86 . You think that upon the score of fore - knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans . When they ...
... death . King John , act v . sc . 7 . There , swan - like , let me sing and die . - BYRON : Don Juan , canto iii . st . 86 . You think that upon the score of fore - knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans . When they ...
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... death . " Twelfth Night . Act iii . Sc . 4.1 Ibid.1 As the old hermit of Prague , that never saw pen and ink , very ... death . - TENNYSON : The Charge of the Light Brigade , stanza 3 . In the jaws of death . - DU BARTAS : Divine Weekes ...
... death . " Twelfth Night . Act iii . Sc . 4.1 Ibid.1 As the old hermit of Prague , that never saw pen and ink , very ... death . - TENNYSON : The Charge of the Light Brigade , stanza 3 . In the jaws of death . - DU BARTAS : Divine Weekes ...
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... death should sing . I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan , Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death , 2 And from the organ - pipe of frailty sings His soul and body to their lasting rest . Sc . 7 . Now my soul hath elbow - room ...
... death should sing . I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan , Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death , 2 And from the organ - pipe of frailty sings His soul and body to their lasting rest . Sc . 7 . Now my soul hath elbow - room ...
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