A Dictionary of Quotations from English and American PoetsT.Y. Crowell & Company, 1888 - 761 pages |
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... clouds , scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend . 115 Shaks .: Jul . Cæsar . Act ii . Sc . 1 . Shaks .: Richard III . Act i . Sc . 3 . They that stand high , have many blasts to shake them ; And if they fall , they dash ...
... clouds , scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend . 115 Shaks .: Jul . Cæsar . Act ii . Sc . 1 . Shaks .: Richard III . Act i . Sc . 3 . They that stand high , have many blasts to shake them ; And if they fall , they dash ...
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... clouds and snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind , Must look down on the hate of those below . 130 Byron : Ch . Harold . Canto iii . St. 45 . To th ' expanded and aspiring soul , To be but still the thing it long has been , Is ...
... clouds and snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind , Must look down on the hate of those below . 130 Byron : Ch . Harold . Canto iii . St. 45 . To th ' expanded and aspiring soul , To be but still the thing it long has been , Is ...
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... clouds , So honor peereth in the meanest habit . 167 Shaks .: Tam . of the S. Act iv . Sc . 3 . Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy , But not expressed in fancy ; rich , not gaudy : For the apparel oft proclaims the man . 168 APPEAL ...
... clouds , So honor peereth in the meanest habit . 167 Shaks .: Tam . of the S. Act iv . Sc . 3 . Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy , But not expressed in fancy ; rich , not gaudy : For the apparel oft proclaims the man . 168 APPEAL ...
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... Clouds are flying On like steeds ; While their shadows O'er the meadows Walk like widows Deck'd in weeds . 261 Thos . Buchanan Read : Autumn's Sighing . The lands are lit With all the autumn blaze of Golden Rod ; And everywhere the ...
... Clouds are flying On like steeds ; While their shadows O'er the meadows Walk like widows Deck'd in weeds . 261 Thos . Buchanan Read : Autumn's Sighing . The lands are lit With all the autumn blaze of Golden Rod ; And everywhere the ...
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... clouds ' twixt our gaze and heaven . 283 Byron : Mar. Faliero . Act iv . Sc . 1 . I saw her at a county ball ; There when the sound of flute and fiddle Gave signal sweet in that old hall , Of hands across and down the middle . Hers was ...
... clouds ' twixt our gaze and heaven . 283 Byron : Mar. Faliero . Act iv . Sc . 1 . I saw her at a county ball ; There when the sound of flute and fiddle Gave signal sweet in that old hall , Of hands across and down the middle . Hers was ...
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