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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... bear , The arm'd rhinoceros , or the Hyrcan tiger , Take any shape but that , and my firm nerves Shall never tremble . _____ Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . Hence , horrible shadow ! Unreal mockery , hence ! Ibid . You have displac'd ...
... bear , The arm'd rhinoceros , or the Hyrcan tiger , Take any shape but that , and my firm nerves Shall never tremble . _____ Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . Hence , horrible shadow ! Unreal mockery , hence ! Ibid . You have displac'd ...
Page 126
... bear a charmed life . And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd , That palter with us in a double sense : That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope . Live to be the show and gaze o ' the time . Lay on ...
... bear a charmed life . And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd , That palter with us in a double sense : That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope . Live to be the show and gaze o ' the time . Lay on ...
Page 130
Beware Of entrance to a quarrel ; but being in , Bear ' t that the opposed may beware of thee . Give every man thy ear , but few thy voice ; Take each man's censure , but reserve thy judgment . Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy ...
Beware Of entrance to a quarrel ; but being in , Bear ' t that the opposed may beware of thee . Give every man thy ear , but few thy voice ; Take each man's censure , but reserve thy judgment . Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy ...
Page 135
... bear the whips and scorns of time , The oppressor's wrong , the proud man's contumely , The pangs of despised love , the law's delay , The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes , When he himself ...
... bear the whips and scorns of time , The oppressor's wrong , the proud man's contumely , The pangs of despised love , the law's delay , The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes , When he himself ...
Page 136
With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels1 bear , To grunt and sweat under a weary life , But that the dread of something after death , The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns , puzzles the will And makes us rather bear ...
With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels1 bear , To grunt and sweat under a weary life , But that the dread of something after death , The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns , puzzles the will And makes us rather bear ...
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