Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern LiteratureLittle, Brown, and Company, 1894 - 1158 pages |
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Page 130
... Angels and ministers of grace , defend us ! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd , Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell , Be thy intents wicked or charitable , Thou comest in such a questionable shape That I will ...
... Angels and ministers of grace , defend us ! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd , Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell , Be thy intents wicked or charitable , Thou comest in such a questionable shape That I will ...
Page 139
... angels ! Make assay ! Bow , stubborn knees ; and , heart with strings of steel , Be soft as sinews of the new - born babe ! Ibid . With all his crimes broad blown , as flush as May . Ibid . About some act That has no relish of salvation ...
... angels ! Make assay ! Bow , stubborn knees ; and , heart with strings of steel , Be soft as sinews of the new - born babe ! Ibid . With all his crimes broad blown , as flush as May . Ibid . About some act That has no relish of salvation ...
Page 165
... angels to fall ; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.3 The remedy is worse than the disease . * 1 ... angels , angels would be gods . Aspiring to be gods , if angels fell , Aspiring to be angels , men rebel . POPE Essay ...
... angels to fall ; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.3 The remedy is worse than the disease . * 1 ... angels , angels would be gods . Aspiring to be gods , if angels fell , Aspiring to be angels , men rebel . POPE Essay ...
Page 172
... Angel's Whisper . 10 Spick and span new . -FORD : The Lover's Melancholy , act i . sc . 1 . FARQUHAR : Preface to his Works . 11 Plain as a pike - staff . — Terence in English ( 1641 ) . BUCKINGHAM : Speech in the House of Lords , 1675 ...
... Angel's Whisper . 10 Spick and span new . -FORD : The Lover's Melancholy , act i . sc . 1 . FARQUHAR : Preface to his Works . 11 Plain as a pike - staff . — Terence in English ( 1641 ) . BUCKINGHAM : Speech in the House of Lords , 1675 ...
Page 183
... angels are , or good or ill , 1 Our fatal shadows that walk by us still . Upon an " Honest Man's Fortune . " All ... angel attending on him in particular all his life long . BURTON : Anatomy of Melancholy , part i . sect . 2 , memb . 1 ...
... angels are , or good or ill , 1 Our fatal shadows that walk by us still . Upon an " Honest Man's Fortune . " All ... angel attending on him in particular all his life long . BURTON : Anatomy of Melancholy , part i . sect . 2 , memb . 1 ...
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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 devil DIOGENES LAERTIUS divine Don Quixote doth dream Dryden earth Epistle eternal evil fair fear fire flower fool give glory golden grave hand happy hast hath heart heaven hell Henry Heywood honour hope Hudibras Ibid JOHN king light Line live look Lord lost man's Maxim mind morning nature ne'er never night numbers o'er peace pleasure PLUTARCH POPE proverb PUBLIUS SYRUS RABELAIS Richard III rose Sect Shakespeare sing sleep smile song Sonnet sorrow soul Speech spirit Stanza stars sweet tears thee Themistocles thine things THOMAS THOMAS HEYWOOD thou art thought tongue truth unto viii virtue wind wise woman words young youth