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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... earth do her homage , the very least as feeling her care , and the greatest as not exempted from her power . - Ecclesiastical Polity . Book i . That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery . Book i . JOHN LYLY ...
... earth do her homage , the very least as feeling her care , and the greatest as not exempted from her power . - Ecclesiastical Polity . Book i . That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery . Book i . JOHN LYLY ...
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... earth , from earth to heaven ; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown , the poet's pen Turns them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . Such tricks hath strong imagination , That if ...
... earth , from earth to heaven ; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown , the poet's pen Turns them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . Such tricks hath strong imagination , That if ...
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... earth of majesty , this seat of Mars , This other Eden , demi - paradise , This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war , This happy breed of men , this little world , This precious stone set in the ...
... earth of majesty , this seat of Mars , This other Eden , demi - paradise , This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war , This happy breed of men , this little world , This precious stone set in the ...
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... earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones . For God's sake , let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings . King Richard II . Act i . Sc . 2 . Comes at the last , and with a little pin Bores through his ...
... earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones . For God's sake , let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings . King Richard II . Act i . Sc . 2 . Comes at the last , and with a little pin Bores through his ...
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... earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pity , so it was , This villanous saltpetre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth , Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and but ...
... earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pity , so it was , This villanous saltpetre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth , Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and but ...
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Anatomy of Melancholy angels BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER beauty better blessed Book breath Cæsar Canto Chap Chaucer Childe Harold's Pilgrimage dark dead dear death deed Devil DIOGENES LAERTIUS Don Quixote doth dream Dryden earth Epistle Fable fair fear flower fool Frag give glory grave hand happy hast hath heart heaven Henry Heywood honour hope Hudibras Ibia Ibid JOHN King Lady light Line live look Lord man's Maxim Melancholy mind morning Nature ne'er never night numbers o'er pleasure PLUTARCH POPE proverb PUBLIUS SYRUS Richard III Sect Shakespeare sing sleep smile song Sonnet sorrow soul Speech spirit Stanza stars sweet tale tears thee Themistocles There's thine things THOMAS THOMAS HEYWOOD thou art thought tongue truth unto viii virtue WILLIAM wind wise woman words young youth