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 64
... better than his crown ; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power , The attribute to awe and majesty , Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway , It is enthroned in the hearts of kings ...
... better than his crown ; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power , The attribute to awe and majesty , Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway , It is enthroned in the hearts of kings ...
Page 68
... better days , If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church , If ever sat at any good man's feast . Ibid . True is it that we have seen better days . Ibid . 1 The same in The Taming of the Shrew , act iv . sc . 1 ; in Othello , act ...
... better days , If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church , If ever sat at any good man's feast . Ibid . True is it that we have seen better days . Ibid . 1 The same in The Taming of the Shrew , act iv . sc . 1 ; in Othello , act ...
Page 87
... better . Ibid . To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast1 Fits a dull fighter and a keen guest . I ... better spared a better man . Ibid . The better part of valour is discretion.2 Full bravely hast thou fleshed Ibid ...
... better . Ibid . To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast1 Fits a dull fighter and a keen guest . I ... better spared a better man . Ibid . The better part of valour is discretion.2 Full bravely hast thou fleshed Ibid ...
Page 100
... better deeds Shall be in water writ , but this in marble . BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER : Philaster , act v . sc . 3 . L'injure se grave en métal ; et le bienfait s'escrit en l'onde . ( An injury graves itself in metal , but a benefit writes ...
... better deeds Shall be in water writ , but this in marble . BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER : Philaster , act v . sc . 3 . L'injure se grave en métal ; et le bienfait s'escrit en l'onde . ( An injury graves itself in metal , but a benefit writes ...
Page 114
... better : Did I say " better " ? Ibid . There is no terror , Cassius , in your threats , For I am arm'd so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind , Which I respect not . Ibid . Should I have answer'd Caius Cassius so ...
... better : Did I say " better " ? Ibid . There is no terror , Cassius , in your threats , For I am arm'd so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind , Which I respect not . Ibid . Should I have answer'd Caius Cassius so ...
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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