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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... Tears , 1612 . - JONSON : Every Man in his A proverb in the time of Saint Bernard was , Qui me amat , amet et canem meum ( Who loves me will love my dog also ) .- Sermo Primus . An ill winde that bloweth no man to good.1 Proverbes ...
... Tears , 1612 . - JONSON : Every Man in his A proverb in the time of Saint Bernard was , Qui me amat , amet et canem meum ( Who loves me will love my dog also ) .- Sermo Primus . An ill winde that bloweth no man to good.1 Proverbes ...
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... tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf . As night the life - inclining stars best shows , So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose . Act v . Sc . 1 . Epilogue to Translations . Promise is most given when the least is ...
... tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf . As night the life - inclining stars best shows , So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose . Act v . Sc . 1 . Epilogue to Translations . Promise is most given when the least is ...
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... tears Coursed one another down his innocent nose In piteous chase . " Poor deer , " quoth he , " thou makest a testament As worldlings do , giving thy sum of more To that which had too much . ” Sweep on , you fat and greasy citizens ...
... tears Coursed one another down his innocent nose In piteous chase . " Poor deer , " quoth he , " thou makest a testament As worldlings do , giving thy sum of more To that which had too much . ” Sweep on , you fat and greasy citizens ...
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... tears ; the earth's a thief , That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen From general excrement : each thing's a thief . Life's uncertain voyage . Ibid . Ibid . Act ii . Sc . 2 . Ibid . Act iii . Sc . 1 . Sc . 5 . Act iv . Sc . 2 . Sc ...
... tears ; the earth's a thief , That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen From general excrement : each thing's a thief . Life's uncertain voyage . Ibid . Ibid . Act ii . Sc . 2 . Ibid . Act iii . Sc . 1 . Sc . 5 . Act iv . Sc . 2 . Sc ...
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... tears , prepare to shed them now . Ibid . See what a rent the envious Casca made . Ibid . This was the most unkindest cut of all . Ibid 1 Though last not least . — SPENSER : Colin Clout , line 444 . Great Cæsar fell . O , what a fall ...
... tears , prepare to shed them now . Ibid . See what a rent the envious Casca made . Ibid . This was the most unkindest cut of all . Ibid 1 Though last not least . — SPENSER : Colin Clout , line 444 . Great Cæsar fell . O , what a fall ...
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