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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... pleasure to acknowledge the great as- sistance I have received from Mr. A. W. STEVENS , the accomplished reader of the University Press , as this work was passing through the press . In withdrawing from this very agreeable pursuit , I ...
... pleasure to acknowledge the great as- sistance I have received from Mr. A. W. STEVENS , the accomplished reader of the University Press , as this work was passing through the press . In withdrawing from this very agreeable pursuit , I ...
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... pleasures might me move To live with thee , and be thy love . The Nymph's Reply to the Passionate Shepherd . Fain would I , but I dare not ; I dare , and yet I may not ; I may , although I care not , for pleasure when I play not . Fain ...
... pleasures might me move To live with thee , and be thy love . The Nymph's Reply to the Passionate Shepherd . Fain would I , but I dare not ; I dare , and yet I may not ; I may , although I care not , for pleasure when I play not . Fain ...
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... pleasure ta'en ; In brief , sir , study what you most affect . There's small choice in rotten apples . Nothing comes amiss ; so money comes withal . Tush tush ! fear boys with bugs . And do as adversaries do in law , - Strive mightily ...
... pleasure ta'en ; In brief , sir , study what you most affect . There's small choice in rotten apples . Nothing comes amiss ; so money comes withal . Tush tush ! fear boys with bugs . And do as adversaries do in law , - Strive mightily ...
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... pleasure of the time . What man dare , I dare : Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear , The arm'd rhinoceros , or the Hyrcan tiger , - Take any shape but that , and my firm nerves Shall never tremble . Ibid . Ibid . Hence ...
... pleasure of the time . What man dare , I dare : Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear , The arm'd rhinoceros , or the Hyrcan tiger , - Take any shape but that , and my firm nerves Shall never tremble . Ibid . Ibid . Hence ...
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... pleasure lost which is so deem'd , Not by our feeling , but by others ' seeing . No , I am that I am , and they that level At my abuses reckon up their own . That full star that ushers in the even . So on the tip of his subduing tongue ...
... pleasure lost which is so deem'd , Not by our feeling , but by others ' seeing . No , I am that I am , and they that level At my abuses reckon up their own . That full star that ushers in the even . So on the tip of his subduing tongue ...
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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