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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... light . Though chaunge be no robbry . Proverbes . Part ii . Chap . iv . Ibid . Might have gone further and have fared worse . Ibid . The grey mare is the better horse.1 Ibid . Three may keepe counsayle , if two be away.2 Chap . v ...
... light . Though chaunge be no robbry . Proverbes . Part ii . Chap . iv . Ibid . Might have gone further and have fared worse . Ibid . The grey mare is the better horse.1 Ibid . Three may keepe counsayle , if two be away.2 Chap . v ...
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... Light seeking light doth light of light beguile . Small have continual plodders ever won Save base authority from others ' books . These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights That give a name to every fixed star Have no more profit of ...
... Light seeking light doth light of light beguile . Small have continual plodders ever won Save base authority from others ' books . These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights That give a name to every fixed star Have no more profit of ...
Page 109
... light . Romeo and Juliet . Act v . Sc . 3 . Beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks , And ... lights and bray'd with minstrelsy . ' Tis lack of kindly warmth . Every man has his fault , and honesty is his . Nothing ...
... light . Romeo and Juliet . Act v . Sc . 3 . Beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks , And ... lights and bray'd with minstrelsy . ' Tis lack of kindly warmth . Every man has his fault , and honesty is his . Nothing ...
Page 156
... light , and then put out the light : If I quench thee , thou flaming minister , I can again thy former light restore Should I repent me ; but once put out thy light , Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature , I know not where is ...
... light , and then put out the light : If I quench thee , thou flaming minister , I can again thy former light restore Should I repent me ; but once put out thy light , Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature , I know not where is ...
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... light . Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light , though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk . And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude , Where with her best nurse Contemplation She plumes her ...
... light . Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light , though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk . And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude , Where with her best nurse Contemplation She plumes her ...
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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