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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... Lost . Book ii . Line 1 . The strongest and the fiercest spirit Line 39 . Could have assur'd us . That fought in heaven , now fiercer by despair . Line 44 . Rather than be less , Car'd not to be at all . My sentence is for open war ...
... Lost . Book ii . Line 1 . The strongest and the fiercest spirit Line 39 . Could have assur'd us . That fought in heaven , now fiercer by despair . Line 44 . Rather than be less , Car'd not to be at all . My sentence is for open war ...
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... lost In the wide womb of uncreated night ? His red right hand.1 Paradise Lost . Book ii . Line 146 . Line 174 . Line 185 . Unrespited , unpitied , unrepriev'd . The never - ending flight Of future days . Line 221 . Our torments also may ...
... lost In the wide womb of uncreated night ? His red right hand.1 Paradise Lost . Book ii . Line 146 . Line 174 . Line 185 . Unrespited , unpitied , unrepriev'd . The never - ending flight Of future days . Line 221 . Our torments also may ...
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... lost . Paradise Lost . Book ii . Line 555 . Vain wisdom all and false philosophy . Arm th ' obdur'd breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel . A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old , Where ...
... lost . Paradise Lost . Book ii . Line 555 . Vain wisdom all and false philosophy . Arm th ' obdur'd breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel . A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old , Where ...
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Whence and what art thou , execrable shape ? Paradise Lost . Book ii . Line 681 . Back to thy punishment , False fugitive , and to thy speed add wings . So spake the grisly Terror . Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd ...
Whence and what art thou , execrable shape ? Paradise Lost . Book ii . Line 681 . Back to thy punishment , False fugitive , and to thy speed add wings . So spake the grisly Terror . Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd ...
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Great things with small.1 To compare Paradise Lost . Book ii . Line 921 . O'er bog or steep , through strait , rough , dense , or rare , With head , hands , wings , or feet , pursues his way , And swims or sinks , or wades , or creeps ...
Great things with small.1 To compare Paradise Lost . Book ii . Line 921 . O'er bog or steep , through strait , rough , dense , or rare , With head , hands , wings , or feet , pursues his way , And swims or sinks , or wades , or creeps ...
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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