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 111
... once attains the upmost 1 round , He then unto the ladder turns his back , Looks in the clouds , scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend . Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion , all the interim is Like a ...
... once attains the upmost 1 round , He then unto the ladder turns his back , Looks in the clouds , scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend . Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion , all the interim is Like a ...
Page 145
... once did hold it , as our statists do , A baseness to write fair . It did me yeoman's service . The bravery of his grief did put me Into a towering passion . What imports the nomination of this gentleman ? Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . Ibid ...
... once did hold it , as our statists do , A baseness to write fair . It did me yeoman's service . The bravery of his grief did put me Into a towering passion . What imports the nomination of this gentleman ? Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . Ibid ...
Page 153
... once in doubt Is once to be resolv'd . Ibid . If I do prove her haggard , Though that her jesses were my dear heart - strings , I'ld whistle her off and let her down the wind , To prey at fortune . I am declined Into the vale of years ...
... once in doubt Is once to be resolv'd . Ibid . If I do prove her haggard , Though that her jesses were my dear heart - strings , I'ld whistle her off and let her down the wind , To prey at fortune . I am declined Into the vale of years ...
Page 156
... once put out thy light , Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature , Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . Sc . 2 . I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume . Ibid . So sweet was ne'er so fatal . Ibid . Had all his hairs been ...
... once put out thy light , Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature , Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . Sc . 2 . I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume . Ibid . So sweet was ne'er so fatal . Ibid . Had all his hairs been ...
Page 161
... once foil'd , Is from the books of honour razed quite , And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd . When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past , I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought ...
... once foil'd , Is from the books of honour razed quite , And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd . When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past , I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought ...
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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