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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... pleasure to acknowledge the great as- sistance I have received from Mr. A. W. STEVENS , the accomplished reader of the University Press , as this work was passing through the press . In withdrawing from this very agreeable pursuit , I ...
... pleasure to acknowledge the great as- sistance I have received from Mr. A. W. STEVENS , the accomplished reader of the University Press , as this work was passing through the press . In withdrawing from this very agreeable pursuit , I ...
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... pleasure . ROBERT SOUTHWELL : St. Peter's Complaint . 1595 . Nae man can tether time or tide . - BURNS : Tam O'Shanter . 8 Fast bind , fast find ; A proverb never stale in thrifty mind . SHAKESPEARE : Merchant of Venice , act ii . sc ...
... pleasure . ROBERT SOUTHWELL : St. Peter's Complaint . 1595 . Nae man can tether time or tide . - BURNS : Tam O'Shanter . 8 Fast bind , fast find ; A proverb never stale in thrifty mind . SHAKESPEARE : Merchant of Venice , act ii . sc ...
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... pleasures might me move To live with thee , and be thy love . The Nymph's Reply to the Passionate Shepherd . Fain would I , but I dare not ; I dare , and yet I may not ; I may , although I care not , for pleasure when I play not . Fain ...
... pleasures might me move To live with thee , and be thy love . The Nymph's Reply to the Passionate Shepherd . Fain would I , but I dare not ; I dare , and yet I may not ; I may , although I care not , for pleasure when I play not . Fain ...
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... the coming hour o'erflow with joy , And pleasure drown the brim . No legacy is so rich as honesty . 1 See Heywood , page 18 . Sc . 3 . Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . Sc . 4 . Act iii . Sc . 5 The web of our life is of a mingled yarn SHAKESPEARE . 73.
... the coming hour o'erflow with joy , And pleasure drown the brim . No legacy is so rich as honesty . 1 See Heywood , page 18 . Sc . 3 . Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . Sc . 4 . Act iii . Sc . 5 The web of our life is of a mingled yarn SHAKESPEARE . 73.
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... pleasure of the time . What man dare , I dare : Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear , The arm'd rhinoceros , or the Hyrcan tiger , - Take any shape but that , and my firm nerves Shall never tremble . Ibid . Hence , horrible ...
... pleasure of the time . What man dare , I dare : Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear , The arm'd rhinoceros , or the Hyrcan tiger , - Take any shape but that , and my firm nerves Shall never tremble . Ibid . Hence , horrible ...
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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