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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... breath thou art , Servile to all the skyey influences . Palsied eld . The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle , that we tread upon , In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies . The ...
... breath thou art , Servile to all the skyey influences . Palsied eld . The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle , that we tread upon , In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies . The ...
Page 61
... low , and in a bondman's key , With bated breath and whispering humbleness . For when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend ? Ibid . Ibid . O father Abram ! what these Christians are , Whose SHAKESPEARE . 61.
... low , and in a bondman's key , With bated breath and whispering humbleness . For when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend ? Ibid . Ibid . O father Abram ! what these Christians are , Whose SHAKESPEARE . 61.
Page 77
... breath ; pale primroses , That die unmarried , ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength , a malady 1 Act iii . sc . 5 in Dyce . - Ibid . 2 Into the jaws of death . - TENNYSON : The Charge of the Light Brigade , stanza 3 . In ...
... breath ; pale primroses , That die unmarried , ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength , a malady 1 Act iii . sc . 5 in Dyce . - Ibid . 2 Into the jaws of death . - TENNYSON : The Charge of the Light Brigade , stanza 3 . In ...
Page 88
... breath ; and so was he . But we rose both at an instant , and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock . King Henry IV . Part I. Act v . Sc . 4 . I'll purge , and leave sack , and live cleanly . Even such a man , so faint , so spiritless ...
... breath ; and so was he . But we rose both at an instant , and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock . King Henry IV . Part I. Act v . Sc . 4 . I'll purge , and leave sack , and live cleanly . Even such a man , so faint , so spiritless ...
Page 106
... breath , May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet . Ibid.2 How silver - sweet sound lovers ' tongues by night , Like softest music to attending ears ! Ibid.2 Good night , good night ! parting is such sweet sorrow , That I shall ...
... breath , May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet . Ibid.2 How silver - sweet sound lovers ' tongues by night , Like softest music to attending ears ! Ibid.2 Good night , good night ! parting is such sweet sorrow , That I shall ...
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