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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... : Citizen of the World , letter 71 . Spectatum veniunt , veniunt spectentur ut ipsa ( They come to see ; they come that they themselves may be seen ) .- OVID : The Art of Love i . 99 . I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke , CHAUCER . 3.
... : Citizen of the World , letter 71 . Spectatum veniunt , veniunt spectentur ut ipsa ( They come to see ; they come that they themselves may be seen ) .- OVID : The Art of Love i . 99 . I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke , CHAUCER . 3.
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... hold a mouses wit not worth a leke , That hath but on hole for to sterten to.1 Canterbury Tales . The Wif of Bathes Prologue . Line 6154 Loke who that is most vertuous alway , Prive and apert , and most entendeth ay To do the gentil ...
... hold a mouses wit not worth a leke , That hath but on hole for to sterten to.1 Canterbury Tales . The Wif of Bathes Prologue . Line 6154 Loke who that is most vertuous alway , Prive and apert , and most entendeth ay To do the gentil ...
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... hold everything as gold which shines like gold ) . who died in 1294 , -- All is not golde that outward shewith bright . - LYDGATE : On the Mutability of Human Affairs . Gold all is not that doth golden seem SPENSER : Faerie Queene ...
... hold everything as gold which shines like gold ) . who died in 1294 , -- All is not golde that outward shewith bright . - LYDGATE : On the Mutability of Human Affairs . Gold all is not that doth golden seem SPENSER : Faerie Queene ...
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... hold while I may , fast binde , fast finde . Ibid . And while I at length debate and beate the bush , There shall steppe in other men and catch the burdes . * Ibid . While betweene two stooles my taile goe to the ground . " Ibid . Ibid ...
... hold while I may , fast binde , fast finde . Ibid . And while I at length debate and beate the bush , There shall steppe in other men and catch the burdes . * Ibid . While betweene two stooles my taile goe to the ground . " Ibid . Ibid ...
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... Hold their noses to grinstone . " Ibid . Better to give then to take . Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . When all candles bee out , all cats be gray . No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth . - SHAKESPEARE : Merry Wives , act iii . sc . 4 ...
... Hold their noses to grinstone . " Ibid . Better to give then to take . Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . When all candles bee out , all cats be gray . No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth . - SHAKESPEARE : Merry Wives , act iii . sc . 4 ...
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