A Dictionary of Quotations from English and American PoetsT.Y. Crowell & Company, 1888 - 761 pages |
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... Hudibras . Part I. Canto iii . Line 877 . I have not quailed to danger's brow When high and happy - need I now ? 54 Of all the horrid , hideous notes of woe , Sadder than owl - songs or the midnight blast , Is that portentous phrase ...
... Hudibras . Part I. Canto iii . Line 877 . I have not quailed to danger's brow When high and happy - need I now ? 54 Of all the horrid , hideous notes of woe , Sadder than owl - songs or the midnight blast , Is that portentous phrase ...
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... Hudibras . Pt . ii . Canto iii . Line 669 What can ennoble sots , or slaves , or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards . 137 Pope : Essay on Man . Epis . iv . Line 215 . He stands for fame on his forefathers ' feet , By ...
... Hudibras . Pt . ii . Canto iii . Line 669 What can ennoble sots , or slaves , or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards . 137 Pope : Essay on Man . Epis . iv . Line 215 . He stands for fame on his forefathers ' feet , By ...
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... Hudibras . Part ii . Canto iii . Line 923 . Some men there are love not a gaping pig ; Some , that are mad if they behold a cat . For affection , Master of passion , sways it to the mood Of what it likes or loathes . Shaks . M. of ...
... Hudibras . Part ii . Canto iii . Line 923 . Some men there are love not a gaping pig ; Some , that are mad if they behold a cat . For affection , Master of passion , sways it to the mood Of what it likes or loathes . Shaks . M. of ...
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... Hudibras . Pt . iii . Canto iii . Line 547 . He'd undertake to prove , by force . Of argument , a man's no horse . He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl , And that a lord inay be an owl , A calf an alderman , a goose a justice , And rooks ...
... Hudibras . Pt . iii . Canto iii . Line 547 . He'd undertake to prove , by force . Of argument , a man's no horse . He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl , And that a lord inay be an owl , A calf an alderman , a goose a justice , And rooks ...
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... Hudibras . Pt . iii . Canto iii . Line 243 . See Notes tracing the pedigree of this distich and its parallels , in Hudi- bras , Ed . Bohn , pp . 106 and 403 . When Greeks joined Greeks , then was the tug of BARGAIN - BATTLE . 333.
... Hudibras . Pt . iii . Canto iii . Line 243 . See Notes tracing the pedigree of this distich and its parallels , in Hudi- bras , Ed . Bohn , pp . 106 and 403 . When Greeks joined Greeks , then was the tug of BARGAIN - BATTLE . 333.
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