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 100
... grave en métal ; et le bienfait s'escrit en l'onde . ( An injury graves itself in metal , but a benefit writes itself in water . ) JEAN BERTAUT . Circa 1611 . He was a scholar , and a ripe and good 100 SHAKESPEARE .
... grave en métal ; et le bienfait s'escrit en l'onde . ( An injury graves itself in metal , but a benefit writes itself in water . ) JEAN BERTAUT . Circa 1611 . He was a scholar , and a ripe and good 100 SHAKESPEARE .
Page 108
... grave . Night's candles are burnt out , and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain - tops . Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps . All these woes shall serve For sweet discourses in our time to come . Villain and he be ...
... grave . Night's candles are burnt out , and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain - tops . Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps . All these woes shall serve For sweet discourses in our time to come . Villain and he be ...
Page 121
... grave ; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well : Treason has done his worst ; nor steel , nor poison , Sc . 2 . Ibid . Malice domestic , foreign levy , nothing , Can touch him further . Ibid . In them Nature's copy ' s not eterne ...
... grave ; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well : Treason has done his worst ; nor steel , nor poison , Sc . 2 . Ibid . Malice domestic , foreign levy , nothing , Can touch him further . Ibid . In them Nature's copy ' s not eterne ...
Page 132
... grave Hor . There needs no ghost , my lord , come from the To tell us this . Ibid . Every man has business and desire , Such as it is . Ibid . Art thou there , truepenny ? Come on - you hear this fellow in the cellarage . Ibid . O day ...
... grave Hor . There needs no ghost , my lord , come from the To tell us this . Ibid . Every man has business and desire , Such as it is . Ibid . Art thou there , truepenny ? Come on - you hear this fellow in the cellarage . Ibid . O day ...
Page 144
... grave . Ibid . Though I am not splenitive and rash , Yet have I something in me dangerous . Ibid . Forty thousand brothers Could not , with all their quantity of love , Make up my sum . 1 And from his ashes may be made The violet of his ...
... grave . Ibid . Though I am not splenitive and rash , Yet have I something in me dangerous . Ibid . Forty thousand brothers Could not , with all their quantity of love , Make up my sum . 1 And from his ashes may be made The violet of his ...
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