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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... Turns them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . Such tricks hath strong imagination , That if it would but apprehend some joy , It comprehends some bringer of that joy ; Or in the night , imagining some ...
... Turns them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . Such tricks hath strong imagination , That if it would but apprehend some joy , It comprehends some bringer of that joy ; Or in the night , imagining some ...
Page 69
... Turning again toward childish treble , pipes And whistles in his sound . Last scene of all , That ends this strange eventful history , Is second childishness and mere oblivion , Sans teeth , sans eyes , sans taste , sans everything . 1 ...
... Turning again toward childish treble , pipes And whistles in his sound . Last scene of all , That ends this strange eventful history , Is second childishness and mere oblivion , Sans teeth , sans eyes , sans taste , sans everything . 1 ...
Page 86
... turn and wind a fiery Pegasus And witch the world with noble horsemanship . The cankers of a calm world and a long peace . Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . Act iv . Sc . 1 . Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . Sc . 2 . A mad fellow met me on the way and told me I ...
... turn and wind a fiery Pegasus And witch the world with noble horsemanship . The cankers of a calm world and a long peace . Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . Act iv . Sc . 1 . Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . Sc . 2 . A mad fellow met me on the way and told me I ...
Page 90
... Sc . 4 in Dyce , Singer , Staunton , and White . 2 See Heywood , page 20 . Bc . 5 . Act i . Sc . 1 . Ill blows the wind that profits nobody . - Henry VI . part iii . act ii . Turn him to any cause of policy , The Gordian 90 SHAKESPEARE .
... Sc . 4 in Dyce , Singer , Staunton , and White . 2 See Heywood , page 20 . Bc . 5 . Act i . Sc . 1 . Ill blows the wind that profits nobody . - Henry VI . part iii . act ii . Turn him to any cause of policy , The Gordian 90 SHAKESPEARE .
Page 91
... Turn him to any cause of policy , The Gordian knot of it he will unloose , Familiar as his garter : that when he speaks , The air , a chartered libertine , is still . Base is the slave that pays . Even at the turning o ' the tide . King ...
... Turn him to any cause of policy , The Gordian knot of it he will unloose , Familiar as his garter : that when he speaks , The air , a chartered libertine , is still . Base is the slave that pays . Even at the turning o ' the tide . King ...
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