Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1898 - 1158 pages |
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... - Wode has erys , felde has sigt . — King Edward and the Shepherd , MS . Circa 1300 . Walls have ears . HAZLITT : English Proverbs , etc. ( ed . 1869 ) p . 446 . Min be the travaille , and thin be the glorie 2 CHAUCER .
... - Wode has erys , felde has sigt . — King Edward and the Shepherd , MS . Circa 1300 . Walls have ears . HAZLITT : English Proverbs , etc. ( ed . 1869 ) p . 446 . Min be the travaille , and thin be the glorie 2 CHAUCER .
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... king's English . Sc . 4 . We burn daylight . Act ii . Sc . 1 . There's the humour of it . Ibid . Faith , thou hast some crotchets in thy head now . Ibid . Why , then the world's mine oyster , Which I with sword will open . Sc . 2 . This ...
... king's English . Sc . 4 . We burn daylight . Act ii . Sc . 1 . There's the humour of it . Ibid . Faith , thou hast some crotchets in thy head now . Ibid . Why , then the world's mine oyster , Which I with sword will open . Sc . 2 . This ...
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... king's crown , nor the deputed sword , The marshal's truncheon , nor the judge's robe , Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does.2 Why , all the souls that were , were forfeit once ; And He that might the vantage best ...
... king's crown , nor the deputed sword , The marshal's truncheon , nor the judge's robe , Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does.2 Why , all the souls that were , were forfeit once ; And He that might the vantage best ...
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... King John . Act iii . Sc . 1.1 Here I and sorrows sit ; Here is my throne , bid kings come bow to it . Thou slave , thou wretch , thou coward ! Ibid . Thou little valiant , great in villany ! Thou ever strong upon the stronger side ...
... King John . Act iii . Sc . 1.1 Here I and sorrows sit ; Here is my throne , bid kings come bow to it . Thou slave , thou wretch , thou coward ! Ibid . Thou little valiant , great in villany ! Thou ever strong upon the stronger side ...
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... King John . Act iv . Sc . 2 . We cannot hold mortality's strong hand . Make haste ; the better foot before . I saw a smith stand with his hammer , thus , The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool , With open mouth swallowing a tailor's ...
... King John . Act iv . Sc . 2 . We cannot hold mortality's strong hand . Make haste ; the better foot before . I saw a smith stand with his hammer , thus , The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool , With open mouth swallowing a tailor's ...
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