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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... Lost . Act i . Sc . 1 . 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 ...
... Lost . Act i . Sc . 1 . 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 ...
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... Lost . Act iv . Sc . 3 As sweet and musical 1 As bright Apollo's lute , strung with his hair ; 1 And when Love speaks , the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony . From women's eyes this doctrine I derive : They ...
... Lost . Act iv . Sc . 3 As sweet and musical 1 As bright Apollo's lute , strung with his hair ; 1 And when Love speaks , the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony . From women's eyes this doctrine I derive : They ...
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... Lost . Act v . Sc . 2 . But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn1 Grows , lives , and dies in single blessedness . A Midsummer Night's Dream . Act i . Sc . 1 . For aught that I could ever ...
... Lost . Act v . Sc . 2 . But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn1 Grows , lives , and dies in single blessedness . A Midsummer Night's Dream . Act i . Sc . 1 . For aught that I could ever ...
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... lost and worn , Than women's are . Then let thy love be younger than thyself , Or thy affection cannot hold the bent . The spinsters and the knitters in the sun Ibid . Ibid . Sc . 4 . Ibid . Ibid . And the free maids that weave their ...
... lost and worn , Than women's are . Then let thy love be younger than thyself , Or thy affection cannot hold the bent . The spinsters and the knitters in the sun Ibid . Ibid . Sc . 4 . Ibid . Ibid . And the free maids that weave their ...
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... lost it with halloing and singing of anthems . Ibid . It was alway yet the trick of our English nation , if they have a good thing to make it too common . Ibid . I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to ...
... lost it with halloing and singing of anthems . Ibid . It was alway yet the trick of our English nation , if they have a good thing to make it too common . Ibid . I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to ...
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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