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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... light to counterfeit a gloom . Far from all resort of mirth Save the cricket on the hearth . Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by , Presenting Thebes , or Pelops ' line , Or the tale of Troy divine . Or bid ...
... light to counterfeit a gloom . Far from all resort of mirth Save the cricket on the hearth . Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by , Presenting Thebes , or Pelops ' line , Or the tale of Troy divine . Or bid ...
Page 256
... light ; But oh , she dances such a way ! No sun upon an Easter - day Is half so fine a sight . Ballad upon a Wedding ... lights without a name . But as when an authentic watch is shown , Each man winds up and rectifies his own , So in ...
... light ; But oh , she dances such a way ! No sun upon an Easter - day Is half so fine a sight . Ballad upon a Wedding ... lights without a name . But as when an authentic watch is shown , Each man winds up and rectifies his own , So in ...
Page 265
... light a candle to the sun.2 Ibid . WILLIAM WALKER . 1623-1684 . Learn to read slow : all other graces Will follow in ... lights a candle to the sun . - FLETCHER : Letter to Sir Walter Aston . And hold their farthing candle to the sun ...
... light a candle to the sun.2 Ibid . WILLIAM WALKER . 1623-1684 . Learn to read slow : all other graces Will follow in ... lights a candle to the sun . - FLETCHER : Letter to Sir Walter Aston . And hold their farthing candle to the sun ...
Page 316
... light me rise ; My footstool earth , my canopy the skies.1 Why has not man a microscopic eye ? Line 139 . For this plain reason , - man is not a fly . Line 193 . Die of a rose in aromatic pain . Line 200 . The spider's touch , how ...
... light me rise ; My footstool earth , my canopy the skies.1 Why has not man a microscopic eye ? Line 139 . For this plain reason , - man is not a fly . Line 193 . Die of a rose in aromatic pain . Line 200 . The spider's touch , how ...
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... light of Love . Her track , where'er the goddess roves , Glory pursue , and gen'rous shame , Line 16 . Th ' unconquerable mind , and freedom's holy flame . 11. 2 , Line 10 . Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears . III . 1 , Line ...
... light of Love . Her track , where'er the goddess roves , Glory pursue , and gen'rous shame , Line 16 . Th ' unconquerable mind , and freedom's holy flame . 11. 2 , Line 10 . Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears . III . 1 , Line ...
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Anatomy of Melancholy angels BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER beauty better blessed Book breath Cæsar Canto Chap Chaucer Childe Harold's Pilgrimage dark dead dear death devil DIOGENES LAERTIUS divine Don Quixote doth dream Dryden earth Epistle eternal evil fair fear fire flower fool give glory golden grave hand happy hast hath heart heaven hell Henry Heywood honour hope Hudibras Ibid JOHN king light Line live look Lord lost man's Maxim mind morning nature ne'er never night numbers o'er peace pleasure PLUTARCH POPE proverb PUBLIUS SYRUS RABELAIS Richard III rose Sect Shakespeare sing sleep smile song Sonnet sorrow soul Speech spirit Stanza stars sweet tears thee Themistocles thine things THOMAS THOMAS HEYWOOD thou art thought tongue truth unto viii virtue wind wise woman words young youth