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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... hand than ten in the wood.1 Proverbes . Part i . Chap . xi . Rome was not built in one day . Ibid . Yee have many strings to your bowe . ' Ibid . Many small make a great . Ibid . Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe ...
... hand than ten in the wood.1 Proverbes . Part i . Chap . xi . Rome was not built in one day . Ibid . Yee have many strings to your bowe . ' Ibid . Many small make a great . Ibid . Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe ...
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... shall obtain mercy . Matthew v . 7 . The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good . SHAKE SPEARE : Measure for Measure , act iii . sc . 1 . 4 See Heywood , page 12 . To fret thy soule with crosses and with cares ; SPENSER . 29.
... shall obtain mercy . Matthew v . 7 . The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good . SHAKE SPEARE : Measure for Measure , act iii . sc . 1 . 4 See Heywood , page 12 . To fret thy soule with crosses and with cares ; SPENSER . 29.
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... hand in hand , not one before another . He hath indeed better bettered expectation . He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat . Act iii . Sc . 1 . Act v . Sc . 1 . Ibid . Ibid . Much Ado about Nothing . Act i . Sc . 1 . A very ...
... hand in hand , not one before another . He hath indeed better bettered expectation . He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat . Act iii . Sc . 1 . Act v . Sc . 1 . Ibid . Ibid . Much Ado about Nothing . Act i . Sc . 1 . A very ...
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... hand . Make haste ; the better foot before . I saw a smith stand with his hammer , thus , The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool , With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news . Another lean unwashed artificer . How oft the sight of ...
... hand . Make haste ; the better foot before . I saw a smith stand with his hammer , thus , The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool , With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news . Another lean unwashed artificer . How oft the sight of ...
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... hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ? O , no ! the apprehension of the good Gives but the ...
... hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ? O , no ! the apprehension of the good Gives but the ...
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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 Ibid Ibid JOHN Julius Cæsar King Lady light Line live look Lord man's Maxim melancholy mind morning Nature ne'er never night numbers o'er pleasure PLUTARCH 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