Familiar Quotations: a Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature |
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Page 186
Like Æsop's fox , when he had lost his tail , would have all his fellow foxes cut off
theirs . ? Ibid . Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on earth ,
that I think they will plead their clients ' causes hereafter , some of them in hell .
Like Æsop's fox , when he had lost his tail , would have all his fellow foxes cut off
theirs . ? Ibid . Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on earth ,
that I think they will plead their clients ' causes hereafter , some of them in hell .
Page 219
Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana ; he is almost lost that built it.3
Ibid . What song the Sirens sang , or what name Achilles assumed when he hid
himself among women . Ibid . When we desire to confine our words , we
commonly ...
Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana ; he is almost lost that built it.3
Ibid . What song the Sirens sang , or what name Achilles assumed when he hid
himself among women . Ibid . When we desire to confine our words , we
commonly ...
Page 223
Paradise Lost . Book i . Line 1 . Or if Sion hill Delight thee more , and Siloa's
brook , that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God . Line 10 . Things unattempted yet in
prose or rhyme . Line 16 . What in me is dark Illumine , what is low raise and
support ...
Paradise Lost . Book i . Line 1 . Or if Sion hill Delight thee more , and Siloa's
brook , that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God . Line 10 . Things unattempted yet in
prose or rhyme . Line 16 . What in me is dark Illumine , what is low raise and
support ...
Page 224
Paradise Lost . Book i . Line 253 . Here we may reign secure ; and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition , though in hell : Better to reign in hell than serve in
heaven . Line 261 . Heard so oft In worst extremes , and on the perilous edge Of ...
Paradise Lost . Book i . Line 253 . Here we may reign secure ; and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition , though in hell : Better to reign in hell than serve in
heaven . Line 261 . Heard so oft In worst extremes , and on the perilous edge Of ...
Page 225
Paradise Lost . Book i . Line 549 . His form had yet not lost All her original
brightness , nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd , and th ' excess Of glory
obscur'd . Line 591 . In dim eclipse , disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations ,
and ...
Paradise Lost . Book i . Line 549 . His form had yet not lost All her original
brightness , nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd , and th ' excess Of glory
obscur'd . Line 591 . In dim eclipse , disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations ,
and ...
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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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