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 82
... 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 . Act iii . Sc . 2 . Comes at the last , and with a little pin Bores through ...
... 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 . Act iii . Sc . 2 . Comes at the last , and with a little pin Bores through ...
Page 83
... earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pity , so it was , This villanous saltpetre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth , Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and but ...
... earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pity , so it was , This villanous saltpetre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth , Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and but ...
Page 106
... earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give , Nor aught so good but strain'd from that fair use Revolts from true birth , stumbling on abuse : Virtue itself turns vice , being misapplied ; And vice sometimes by action ...
... earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give , Nor aught so good but strain'd from that fair use Revolts from true birth , stumbling on abuse : Virtue itself turns vice , being misapplied ; And vice sometimes by action ...
Page 116
... earth , And yet are on ' t ? Ibid . If you can look into the seeds of time , And say which grain will grow and which will not . Ibid . Stands not within the prospect of belief . Ibid . The earth hath bubbles as the water has , And these ...
... earth , And yet are on ' t ? Ibid . If you can look into the seeds of time , And say which grain will grow and which will not . Ibid . Stands not within the prospect of belief . Ibid . The earth hath bubbles as the water has , And these ...
Page 126
... fearful summons . Ibid . Whether in sea or fire , in earth or air , The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine . 1 Act v . Sc . 7 in Singer and White . Ibid . It faded on the crowing of the cock . Some 126 SHAKESPEARE .
... fearful summons . Ibid . Whether in sea or fire , in earth or air , The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine . 1 Act v . Sc . 7 in Singer and White . Ibid . It faded on the crowing of the cock . Some 126 SHAKESPEARE .
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