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 90
... speak of Africa and golden joys . Ibid . Under which king , Bezonian ? speak , or die ! Ibid . O for a Muse of fire , that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! King Henry V. Prologue . Consideration , like an angel , came ...
... speak of Africa and golden joys . Ibid . Under which king , Bezonian ? speak , or die ! Ibid . O for a Muse of fire , that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! King Henry V. Prologue . Consideration , like an angel , came ...
Page 107
... speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month . My man's as true as steel.1 These violent delights have violent ends . Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow . Here comes the lady ! O , so light a foot Will ne'er wear out the ...
... speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month . My man's as true as steel.1 These violent delights have violent ends . Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow . Here comes the lady ! O , so light a foot Will ne'er wear out the ...
Page 113
... speak ; for him have I offended . I pause for a reply . Ibid . Friends , Romans , countrymen , lend me your ears ; I come to bury Cæsar , not to praise him . The evil that men do lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their ...
... speak ; for him have I offended . I pause for a reply . Ibid . Friends , Romans , countrymen , lend me your ears ; I come to bury Cæsar , not to praise him . The evil that men do lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their ...
Page 114
... speak right on . Put a tongue In every wound of Cæsar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny . When love begins to sicken and decay , It useth an enforced ceremony . There are no tricks in plain and simple faith . You ...
... speak right on . Put a tongue In every wound of Cæsar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny . When love begins to sicken and decay , It useth an enforced ceremony . There are no tricks in plain and simple faith . You ...
Page 124
... speak Whispers the o'er - fraught heart and bids it break . What , all my pretty chickens and their dam At one fell swoop ? Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . I cannot but remember such things were , That were most precious to me . Ibid . O ...
... speak Whispers the o'er - fraught heart and bids it break . What , all my pretty chickens and their dam At one fell swoop ? Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . I cannot but remember such things were , That were most precious to me . Ibid . O ...
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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