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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... happy turns from orators and poets , have knocked at the door , and it was hard to deny them . But to admit these simply on their own merits , without assurance that the general reader would readily recognize them as old friends , was ...
... happy turns from orators and poets , have knocked at the door , and it was hard to deny them . But to admit these simply on their own merits , without assurance that the general reader would readily recognize them as old friends , was ...
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... happy man's without a shirt . Circa 1565 . Be Merry Friends . 1 He that spareth the rod hateth his son . - Proverbs xiii . 24 . They spare the rod and spoyl the child . -RALPH VENNING : Mysteries and Revelations ( second ed . ) , p . 5 ...
... happy man's without a shirt . Circa 1565 . Be Merry Friends . 1 He that spareth the rod hateth his son . - Proverbs xiii . 24 . They spare the rod and spoyl the child . -RALPH VENNING : Mysteries and Revelations ( second ed . ) , p . 5 ...
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... , act 2. sc . 9 . - Marriage and hanging go by destiny ; matches are not made in heaven -BURTON : Anatomy of Melancholy , part iii . sec . 2 , mem . 5 , subs . 5 . Happy man , happy dole.1 God never sends th ' 10 HEYWOOD .
... , act 2. sc . 9 . - Marriage and hanging go by destiny ; matches are not made in heaven -BURTON : Anatomy of Melancholy , part iii . sec . 2 , mem . 5 , subs . 5 . Happy man , happy dole.1 God never sends th ' 10 HEYWOOD .
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... Happy man , happy dole.1 God never sends th ' mouth but he sendeth meat . Like will to like . Proverbes . Part i . Chap . iii . Chap . iv . Ibid . A hard beginning maketh a good ending . Ibid . When the skie falth we shall have Larkes.2 ...
... Happy man , happy dole.1 God never sends th ' mouth but he sendeth meat . Like will to like . Proverbes . Part i . Chap . iii . Chap . iv . Ibid . A hard beginning maketh a good ending . Ibid . When the skie falth we shall have Larkes.2 ...
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... happy hands . Epithalamion . Line 223 . RICHARD HOOKER . 1553-1600 . Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God , her voice the harmony of the world . All things in heaven and earth do her homage ...
... happy hands . Epithalamion . Line 223 . RICHARD HOOKER . 1553-1600 . Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God , her voice the harmony of the world . All things in heaven and earth do her homage ...
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