A Dictionary of Quotations from English and American PoetsT.Y. Crowell & Company, 1888 - 761 pages |
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... Live o'er each scene , and be what they behold ; For this the tragic muse first trod the stage , Commanding tears to stream through every age . 40 ADAPTABILITY . Pope : Prol . to Addison's Cato . All things are ready , if our minds be ...
... Live o'er each scene , and be what they behold ; For this the tragic muse first trod the stage , Commanding tears to stream through every age . 40 ADAPTABILITY . Pope : Prol . to Addison's Cato . All things are ready , if our minds be ...
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... little ; nor that little long ; How soon must he resign his very dust , Which frugal nature lent him for an hour ! 94 Young : Night Thoughts . Night iv . Line 114 . Learn to live well , or fairly make your will 10 AGE .
... little ; nor that little long ; How soon must he resign his very dust , Which frugal nature lent him for an hour ! 94 Young : Night Thoughts . Night iv . Line 114 . Learn to live well , or fairly make your will 10 AGE .
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... live . 102 Shaks .: M. of Venice . Act iv . Sc . 1 . ALACRITY -see Promptitude . A willing heart adds feather to the heel , And makes the clown a winged Mercury . 103 ALARM . Joanna Baillie : De Monfort . Act iii . Sc . 2 . What's the ...
... live . 102 Shaks .: M. of Venice . Act iv . Sc . 1 . ALACRITY -see Promptitude . A willing heart adds feather to the heel , And makes the clown a winged Mercury . 103 ALARM . Joanna Baillie : De Monfort . Act iii . Sc . 2 . What's the ...
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... live to please , must please to live . 243 Dr. Johnson : Pro . on Opening Drury Lane Theatre . Some write a narrative of wars and feats , Of heroes little known , and call the rant A history . Describe the man , of whom His own coevals ...
... live to please , must please to live . 243 Dr. Johnson : Pro . on Opening Drury Lane Theatre . Some write a narrative of wars and feats , Of heroes little known , and call the rant A history . Describe the man , of whom His own coevals ...
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... live . 309 Shaks .: Sonnet liv . My beauty , though but mean , Needs not the painted flourish of your praise ; Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye , Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues . 310 Shaks .: Love's L. Lost . Act ...
... live . 309 Shaks .: Sonnet liv . My beauty , though but mean , Needs not the painted flourish of your praise ; Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye , Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues . 310 Shaks .: Love's L. Lost . Act ...
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