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 89
... head that wears a crown . Act iii . Sc . 1 . Ibid . Ibid . Death , as the Psalmist saith , is certain to all ; all shall die . How a good yoke of bullocks at Stamford fair ? Sc . 2 . Accommodated ; that is , when a man is , as they say ...
... head that wears a crown . Act iii . Sc . 1 . Ibid . Ibid . Death , as the Psalmist saith , is certain to all ; all shall die . How a good yoke of bullocks at Stamford fair ? Sc . 2 . Accommodated ; that is , when a man is , as they say ...
Page 97
... head ! Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast , Ready with every nod to tumble down . Even in the afternoon of her best days . Thou troublest me ; I am not in the vein . Their lips were four red roses on a stalk . The sons of Edward ...
... head ! Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast , Ready with every nod to tumble down . Even in the afternoon of her best days . Thou troublest me ; I am not in the vein . Their lips were four red roses on a stalk . The sons of Edward ...
Page 107
... head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat . A word and a blow.2 A plague o ' both your houses ! Act iii . Sc . 1 . Ibid . Ibid . Rom . Courage , man ; the hurt cannot be much . Mer . No , ' t is not so deep as a well , nor ...
... head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat . A word and a blow.2 A plague o ' both your houses ! Act iii . Sc . 1 . Ibid . Ibid . Rom . Courage , man ; the hurt cannot be much . Mer . No , ' t is not so deep as a well , nor ...
Page 121
... head they placed a fruitless crown , And put a barren sceptre in my gripe , Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand , No son of mine succeeding . Mur . Ibid . We are men , my liege . Mac . Ay , in the catalogue ye go for men . Ibid ...
... head they placed a fruitless crown , And put a barren sceptre in my gripe , Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand , No son of mine succeeding . Mur . Ibid . We are men , my liege . Mac . Ay , in the catalogue ye go for men . Ibid ...
Page 132
... head . Ibid . Ibid . Leave her to heaven And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge , To prick and sting her . Ibid . The glow - worm shows the matin to be near , And ' gins to pale his uneffectual fire . Ibid . While memory holds a ...
... head . Ibid . Ibid . Leave her to heaven And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge , To prick and sting her . Ibid . The glow - worm shows the matin to be near , And ' gins to pale his uneffectual fire . Ibid . While memory holds a ...
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