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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... happy 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 ...
... happy 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 ...
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... happy man's without a shirt . Be Merry Friends . 1 He that spareth the rod hateth his son . — - Proverbs xiii . 24 . They spare the rod and spoy ? the child . — RALPH VENNING : Mysteries and Revelations ( second ed . ) , p . 5. 1649 ...
... happy man's without a shirt . Be Merry Friends . 1 He that spareth the rod hateth his son . — - Proverbs xiii . 24 . They spare the rod and spoy ? the child . — RALPH VENNING : Mysteries and Revelations ( second ed . ) , p . 5. 1649 ...
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... , act 2. sc . 9 . - Marriage and hanging go by destiny ; matches are made in heaven . - BURTON : Anatomy of Melancholy , part iii . sec . 2 , mem . 5 , subs . 5 . Happy man , happy dole.1 God never sends th ' 10 HEYWOOD .
... , act 2. sc . 9 . - Marriage and hanging go by destiny ; matches are made in heaven . - BURTON : Anatomy of Melancholy , part iii . sec . 2 , mem . 5 , subs . 5 . Happy man , happy dole.1 God never sends th ' 10 HEYWOOD .
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... Happy man , happy dole.1 God never sends th ' mouth but he sendeth meat . Like will to like . Proverbes . Part i . Chap . iii , Chap . iv . Ibid . A hard beginning maketh a good ending . Ibid . When the skie falth we shall have Larkes ...
... Happy man , happy dole.1 God never sends th ' mouth but he sendeth meat . Like will to like . Proverbes . Part i . Chap . iii , Chap . iv . Ibid . A hard beginning maketh a good ending . Ibid . When the skie falth we shall have Larkes ...
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... happy earth , Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread ! The noblest mind the best contentment has . A bold bad man.2 Her angels face , As the great eye of heaven , shyned bright , And made a sunshine in the shady place . Ay me , how ...
... happy earth , Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread ! The noblest mind the best contentment has . A bold bad man.2 Her angels face , As the great eye of heaven , shyned bright , And made a sunshine in the shady place . Ay me , how ...
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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