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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... human mortals . The rude sea grew civil at her song , Ibid . Act ii . Sc . 1.3 And certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea - maid's music . 1 Maidens withering on the stalk .. stanza 1 . 2 " . - Ibid . WORDSWORTH ...
... human mortals . The rude sea grew civil at her song , Ibid . Act ii . Sc . 1.3 And certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea - maid's music . 1 Maidens withering on the stalk .. stanza 1 . 2 " . - Ibid . WORDSWORTH ...
Page 117
... human kindness . Yet do I fear thy nature ; What thou wouldst highly , Sc . 5 . That wouldst thou holily ; wouldst not play false , And yet wouldst wrongly win . Ibia . That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose ...
... human kindness . Yet do I fear thy nature ; What thou wouldst highly , Sc . 5 . That wouldst thou holily ; wouldst not play false , And yet wouldst wrongly win . Ibia . That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose ...
Page 188
... human kind , wine and women , which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people ; they go commonly together.2 All our geese are swans . Subsect . 13 . Subsect . 14 . Though they [ philosophers ] write contemptu gloriæ , yet as Hieron ...
... human kind , wine and women , which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people ; they go commonly together.2 All our geese are swans . Subsect . 13 . Subsect . 14 . Though they [ philosophers ] write contemptu gloriæ , yet as Hieron ...
Page 218
... human features and countenance , although composed of but some ten parts or little more , are so fashioned that among so many thousands of men there are no two in existence who cannot be distinguished from one another . PLINY : Natural ...
... human features and countenance , although composed of but some ten parts or little more , are so fashioned that among so many thousands of men there are no two in existence who cannot be distinguished from one another . PLINY : Natural ...
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... human offspring . Line 750 . Squat like a toad , close at the ear of Eve . Line 800 . Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear Touch'd lightly ; for no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper . Line 810 . Not to know me argues ...
... human offspring . Line 750 . Squat like a toad , close at the ear of Eve . Line 800 . Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear Touch'd lightly ; for no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper . Line 810 . Not to know me argues ...
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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