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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... spirit before a fall . Proverbs xvi . 18 . - Pryde goeth before , and shame cometh behynde . Treatise of a Gallant . Circa 1510 . - 8 She looks as if butter would not melt in her mouth . SWIFT : Polite Conversation . 9 ' Tis old , but ...
... spirit before a fall . Proverbs xvi . 18 . - Pryde goeth before , and shame cometh behynde . Treatise of a Gallant . Circa 1510 . - 8 She looks as if butter would not melt in her mouth . SWIFT : Polite Conversation . 9 ' Tis old , but ...
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... spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t ' have his sails fill'd with a lusty wind , Even till his sail - yards tremble , his masts crack , And his rapt ship run on her side so low That she drinks water , and her keel plows air ...
... spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t ' have his sails fill'd with a lusty wind , Even till his sail - yards tremble , his masts crack , And his rapt ship run on her side so low That she drinks water , and her keel plows air ...
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... spirit have so fair a house , Good things will strive to dwell with ' t . Gon . Here is everything advantageous to ... spirits , and Are melted into air , into thin air : And , like the baseless fabric of this vision , The cloud - capp'd ...
... spirit have so fair a house , Good things will strive to dwell with ' t . Gon . Here is everything advantageous to ... spirits , and Are melted into air , into thin air : And , like the baseless fabric of this vision , The cloud - capp'd ...
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... spirit To bathe in fiery floods , or to reside In thrilling region of thick - ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds , And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world . Ibid . The weariest and most loathed ...
... spirit To bathe in fiery floods , or to reside In thrilling region of thick - ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds , And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world . Ibid . The weariest and most loathed ...
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... spirit The kindest man , In doing courtesies . Ibid . Ibid . Thus when I shun Scylla , your father , I fall into Charybdis , your mother.2 Sc . 5 . Let it serve for table - talk . Ibid . A harmless necessary cat . Act iv . Sc . 1 . What ...
... spirit The kindest man , In doing courtesies . Ibid . Ibid . Thus when I shun Scylla , your father , I fall into Charybdis , your mother.2 Sc . 5 . Let it serve for table - talk . Ibid . A harmless necessary cat . Act iv . Sc . 1 . What ...
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