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 127
... o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill.2 The memory be green . With an auspicious and a dropping eye , 3 With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage , In equal scale weighing delight and dole . Ibid . Sc . 2 . Ibid . The head is ...
... o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill.2 The memory be green . With an auspicious and a dropping eye , 3 With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage , In equal scale weighing delight and dole . Ibid . Sc . 2 . Ibid . The head is ...
Page 136
... o'er with the pale cast of thought , And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry , And lose the name of action . Nymph , in thy orisons . Be all my sins remember'd . Hamlet . Act iii . Sc . 1 ...
... o'er with the pale cast of thought , And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry , And lose the name of action . Nymph , in thy orisons . Be all my sins remember'd . Hamlet . Act iii . Sc . 1 ...
Page 153
... o'er Who dotes , yet doubts , suspects , yet strongly 2 loves ! Ibid . Poor and content is rich and rich enough . Ibid . To be once in doubt Is once to be resolv'd . Ibid . If I do prove her haggard , Though that her jesses were my dear ...
... o'er Who dotes , yet doubts , suspects , yet strongly 2 loves ! Ibid . Poor and content is rich and rich enough . Ibid . To be once in doubt Is once to be resolv'd . Ibid . If I do prove her haggard , Though that her jesses were my dear ...
Page 181
... o'er shady groves they hover , And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men . Act v . Sc . 2 . Is not old wine wholesomest , old pippins toothsom- est , old wood burns brightest , old linen wash whitest ...
... o'er shady groves they hover , And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men . Act v . Sc . 2 . Is not old wine wholesomest , old pippins toothsom- est , old wood burns brightest , old linen wash whitest ...
Page 199
... o'er - rank states , thou grand decider Of dusty and old titles , that healest with blood The earth when it is sick , and curest the world O ' the pleurisy of people ! Act v . Sc . 1 . GEORGE WITHER . 1588-1667 . Shall I , wasting in ...
... o'er - rank states , thou grand decider Of dusty and old titles , that healest with blood The earth when it is sick , and curest the world O ' the pleurisy of people ! Act v . Sc . 1 . GEORGE WITHER . 1588-1667 . Shall I , wasting in ...
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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