Familiar Quotations: a Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature |
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Page 82
And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren
earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones . For God's sake , let us sit
upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings . King Richard II . Actüi .
And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren
earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones . For God's sake , let us sit
upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings . King Richard II . Actüi .
Page 112
When beggars die , there are no comets seen ; The heavens themselves blaze
forth the death of princes . Ibid . Cowards die many times before their deaths ;
The valiant never taste of death but once . Of all the wonders that I yet have heard
, It ...
When beggars die , there are no comets seen ; The heavens themselves blaze
forth the death of princes . Ibid . Cowards die many times before their deaths ;
The valiant never taste of death but once . Of all the wonders that I yet have heard
, It ...
Page 164
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural fear in
children is increased with tales , so is the other . Of Death . Revenge is a kind of
wild justice , which the more man's nature runs to , the more ought law to weed it
out .
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural fear in
children is increased with tales , so is the other . Of Death . Revenge is a kind of
wild justice , which the more man's nature runs to , the more ought law to weed it
out .
Page 180
III . What gentle ghost , besprent with April dew , Hails me so solemnly to yonder
yew ? ? Elegy on the Lady Jane Pawlet . JOHN WEBSTER . --1638 . I know death
hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exit.3 Duchess of Malfi .
III . What gentle ghost , besprent with April dew , Hails me so solemnly to yonder
yew ? ? Elegy on the Lady Jane Pawlet . JOHN WEBSTER . --1638 . I know death
hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exit.3 Duchess of Malfi .
Page 194
Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.2 A Very Woman . Act v . Sc . 4 . This
many - headed monster . The Roman Actor . Act iii . Sc . 2 . Grim death . * Act iv .
Sc . 2 . THOMAS HEYWOOD . --1649 . The world's a theatre , the earth a stage ...
Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.2 A Very Woman . Act v . Sc . 4 . This
many - headed monster . The Roman Actor . Act iii . Sc . 2 . Grim death . * Act iv .
Sc . 2 . THOMAS HEYWOOD . --1649 . The world's a theatre , the earth a stage ...
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| Title | Familiar Quotations: a Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature |
| Compiled by | John Bartlett |
| Edition | 9 |
| Publisher | Little, Brown, and Company, 1894 |
| Original from | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Digitized | 10 Oct 2014 |
| Length | 1158 pages |
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