Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern LiteratureLittle, Brown,, 1903 - 1158 pages |
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... 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 . The better part of valour is discretion.2 Full bravely hast thou fleshed Thy maiden sword ...
... 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 . The better part of valour is discretion.2 Full bravely hast thou fleshed Thy maiden sword ...
Page 93
... better temper ; Between two horses , which doth bear him best ; Between two girls , which hath the merriest eye , - I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgment ; But in these nice sharp quillets of the law , Good faith , I am no ...
... better temper ; Between two horses , which doth bear him best ; Between two girls , which hath the merriest eye , - I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgment ; But in these nice sharp quillets of the law , Good faith , I am no ...
Page 109
... better days . Are not within the leaf of pity writ . Ibid . Ibid . Act ii . Sc . 2 . Ibid . Act iii . Sc . 1 . Sc . 5 . Act iv . Sc . 2 . Sc . 3 . I'll example you with thievery : The sun's a thief , and with his great attraction Robs ...
... better days . Are not within the leaf of pity writ . Ibid . Ibid . Act ii . Sc . 2 . Ibid . Act iii . Sc . 1 . Sc . 5 . Act iv . Sc . 2 . Sc . 3 . I'll example you with thievery : The sun's a thief , and with his great attraction Robs ...
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 ...
Page 121
... Better be with the dead , Whom we , to gain our peace , have sent to peace , Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy . Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well : Treason has done his worst ...
... Better be with the dead , Whom we , to gain our peace , have sent to peace , Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy . Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well : Treason has done his worst ...
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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 eyes Fable fair fear flower fool Frag give glory grave hand happy hast hath heart heaven Henry Heywood honour hope Hudibras Ibia Ibid JOHN King Lady light Line live look Lord man's Maxim melancholy mind morning Nature ne'er never night numbers o'er pleasure PLUTARCH poet POPE proverb PUBLIUS SYRUS Richard III Sect Shakespeare sing sleep smile song Sonnet sorrow soul Speech spirit Stanza stars sweet Tale tears thee Themistocles There's thine things THOMAS THOMAS HEYWOOD thou art thought tongue truth unto viii virtue WILLIAM wind wise woman words young youth
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Page 324 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence. The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 64 - It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch 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, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Page 385 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er...
Page 157 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 233 - With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike : Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds ; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry...
Page 111 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.
Page 26 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
Page 31 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 523 - Oft in the stilly night Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me: The smiles, the tears Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone, Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken!
Page 43 - Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on ; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.