A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poetsauthor, 1881 - 715 pages |
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... published in 1738 , though very satisfactory as far as it goes , and always within reach of a moderate purse , stops short at Herrick , and consequently omits Milton , Butler , viii PREFACE . Waller , Dryden , Addison , Prior.
... published in 1738 , though very satisfactory as far as it goes , and always within reach of a moderate purse , stops short at Herrick , and consequently omits Milton , Butler , viii PREFACE . Waller , Dryden , Addison , Prior.
Page viii
Henry George Bohn. viii PREFACE . Waller , Dryden , Addison , Prior , Gay , Pope , Swift , Thomson , and a great many others who flourished within his time ; and these were precisely the poets we most cared to cultivate . In later years ...
Henry George Bohn. viii PREFACE . Waller , Dryden , Addison , Prior , Gay , Pope , Swift , Thomson , and a great many others who flourished within his time ; and these were precisely the poets we most cared to cultivate . In later years ...
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... VIII . King Henry VIII.-K. John . King John . - Lear . King Lear . -Ric . II . King Richard II . - Ric . III . King Richard III . - Jul . C. Julius Cæsar . - Love's L. L. Love's Labour Lost . - Macb . Macbeth.- M. for M. Measure for ...
... VIII . King Henry VIII.-K. John . King John . - Lear . King Lear . -Ric . II . King Richard II . - Ric . III . King Richard III . - Jul . C. Julius Cæsar . - Love's L. L. Love's Labour Lost . - Macb . Macbeth.- M. for M. Measure for ...
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... VIII . 11. 1 . Where you are liberal of your loves and counsels , Be sure you be not loose ; for those you make friends , And give your hearts to , when they once perceive The least rub in your fortunes , fall away Like water from ye ...
... VIII . 11. 1 . Where you are liberal of your loves and counsels , Be sure you be not loose ; for those you make friends , And give your hearts to , when they once perceive The least rub in your fortunes , fall away Like water from ye ...
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... VIII . 111. 2 . Nor any unproportion'd thought his act . Be thou familiar , but by no means vulgar . The friends thou hast , and their adoption tried , Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel : But do not dull thy palm with ...
... VIII . 111. 2 . Nor any unproportion'd thought his act . Be thou familiar , but by no means vulgar . The friends thou hast , and their adoption tried , Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel : But do not dull thy palm with ...
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