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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... leave To come to succour us that succour want ! Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound . St. 2 . Canto xii . St. 70 . Through thick and thin , both over bank and bush , 1 In hope her to attain by hook or crook.2 Book iii . Canto i ...
... leave To come to succour us that succour want ! Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound . St. 2 . Canto xii . St. 70 . Through thick and thin , both over bank and bush , 1 In hope her to attain by hook or crook.2 Book iii . Canto i ...
Page 43
... Leave not a rack behind . We are such stuff As dreams are made on ; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep . With foreheads villanous low . Act iv . Sc . 1 .. Ibid . Deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book . Act v ...
... Leave not a rack behind . We are such stuff As dreams are made on ; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep . With foreheads villanous low . Act iv . Sc . 1 .. Ibid . Deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book . Act v ...
Page 74
... leave the world no copy . Ibid 1 How noiseless falls the foot of time ! -W . R. SPENCER Lines to Lady A. Hamilton . 2 " Like the sweet south " in Dyce and Singer . This change was made at the suggestion of Pope . 8 See Heywood , page 12 ...
... leave the world no copy . Ibid 1 How noiseless falls the foot of time ! -W . R. SPENCER Lines to Lady A. Hamilton . 2 " Like the sweet south " in Dyce and Singer . This change was made at the suggestion of Pope . 8 See Heywood , page 12 ...
Page 82
... leaves the stage , Are idly bent on him that enters next , Thinking his prattle to be tedious . As for a camel To thread the postern of a small needle's eye.1 So shaken as we are , so wan with care . Ibid Sc . 3 . Ibid . Act iv . Sc . 1 ...
... leaves the stage , Are idly bent on him that enters next , Thinking his prattle to be tedious . As for a camel To thread the postern of a small needle's eye.1 So shaken as we are , so wan with care . Ibid Sc . 3 . Ibid . Act iv . Sc . 1 ...
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... leave sack , and live cleanly . Even such a man , so faint , so spiritless , So dull , so dead in look , so woe - begone , Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night , And would have told him half his Troy was burnt . Yet the first ...
... leave sack , and live cleanly . Even such a man , so faint , so spiritless , So dull , so dead in look , so woe - begone , Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night , And would have told him half his Troy was burnt . Yet the first ...
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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