Familiar Quotations: a Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature |
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Page 58
My heart Is true as steel.8 Ibid.4 I know a bank where the wild thyme blows ,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows , Quite over - canopied with luscious
woodbine , With sweet musk - roses and with eglantine . A lion among ladies is a
...
My heart Is true as steel.8 Ibid.4 I know a bank where the wild thyme blows ,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows , Quite over - canopied with luscious
woodbine , With sweet musk - roses and with eglantine . A lion among ladies is a
...
Page 88
But we rose both at an instant , and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock .
King Henry IV . Part I. Act v . Sc . 4 . I'll purge , and leave sack , and live cleanly .
Ibid . Even such a man , so faint , so spiritless , So dull , so dead in look , so woe ...
But we rose both at an instant , and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock .
King Henry IV . Part I. Act v . Sc . 4 . I'll purge , and leave sack , and live cleanly .
Ibid . Even such a man , so faint , so spiritless , So dull , so dead in look , so woe ...
Page 105
That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet . Ibid.4 For
stony limits cannot hold love out . Ibid.4 Alack , there lies more peril in thine eye
Than twenty of their swords . Ibid.4 1 My dancing days are done . – BEAUMONT ...
That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet . Ibid.4 For
stony limits cannot hold love out . Ibid.4 Alack , there lies more peril in thine eye
Than twenty of their swords . Ibid.4 1 My dancing days are done . – BEAUMONT ...
Page 142
Then up he rose , and donn'd his clothes . Ibid . Come , my coach ! Good night ,
sweet ladies ; good night . Ibid . When sorrows come , they come not single spies
, But in battalions . Ibid . There's such divinity doth hedge a king , That treason ...
Then up he rose , and donn'd his clothes . Ibid . Come , my coach ! Good night ,
sweet ladies ; good night . Ibid . When sorrows come , they come not single spies
, But in battalions . Ibid . There's such divinity doth hedge a king , That treason ...
Page 202
2 Let us crown ourselves with rose - buds , before they be withered . Wisdom of
Solomon , ii . 8 . Gather the rose of love whilest yet is time . — SPENSER : The
Faerie Queene , book ii . canto xii . stanza 75 . 3 See Shakespeare , page 143 .
2 Let us crown ourselves with rose - buds , before they be withered . Wisdom of
Solomon , ii . 8 . Gather the rose of love whilest yet is time . — SPENSER : The
Faerie Queene , book ii . canto xii . stanza 75 . 3 See Shakespeare , page 143 .
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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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