Familiar Quotations: a Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature |
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Page 60
I hold the world but as the world , Gratiano , - A stage , where every man must
play a part ; And mine a sad one . The Merchant of Venice . Act i . Sc . 1 . Why
should a man , whose blood is warm within , Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster
?
I hold the world but as the world , Gratiano , - A stage , where every man must
play a part ; And mine a sad one . The Merchant of Venice . Act i . Sc . 1 . Why
should a man , whose blood is warm within , Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster
?
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Must I hold a candle to my shames ? Ibid . But love is blind , and lovers cannot
see The pretty follies that themselves commit . Ibid . All that glisters is not gold . "
Sc . 7 . Young in limbs , in judgment old . Ibid . Even in the force and road of ...
Must I hold a candle to my shames ? Ibid . But love is blind , and lovers cannot
see The pretty follies that themselves commit . Ibid . All that glisters is not gold . "
Sc . 7 . Young in limbs , in judgment old . Ibid . Even in the force and road of ...
Page 75
... thy affection cannot hold the bent . Ibid . The spinsters and the knitters in the
sun And the free maids that weave their thread with bones Do use to chant it : it is
silly sooth , And dallies with the innocence of love , Like the old age . Ibid . Duke .
... thy affection cannot hold the bent . Ibid . The spinsters and the knitters in the
sun And the free maids that weave their thread with bones Do use to chant it : it is
silly sooth , And dallies with the innocence of love , Like the old age . Ibid . Duke .
Page 80
We cannot hold mortality's strong hand . Toid . Make haste ; the better foot before
. Ibid . I saw a smith stand with his hammer , thus , The whilst his iron did on the
anvil cool , With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news . Ibid . Another lean ...
We cannot hold mortality's strong hand . Toid . Make haste ; the better foot before
. Ibid . I saw a smith stand with his hammer , thus , The whilst his iron did on the
anvil cool , With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news . Ibid . Another lean ...
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0 , who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? Or cloy
the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in
December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ? O , no ! the
apprehension ...
0 , who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? Or cloy
the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in
December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat ? O , no ! the
apprehension ...
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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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