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 69
... , and emperors have for so many ages played their parts , and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre . MONTAIGNE : Of the most Excellent Men . - Blow , blow , thou winter wind ! Thou art SHAKESPEARE . 69.
... , and emperors have for so many ages played their parts , and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre . MONTAIGNE : Of the most Excellent Men . - Blow , blow , thou winter wind ! Thou art SHAKESPEARE . 69.
Page 86
... wind Baited like eagles having lately bathed ; Glittering in golden coats , like images ; As full of spirit as the month of May , And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer . I saw young Harry , with his beaver on , His cuisses on his thighs ...
... wind Baited like eagles having lately bathed ; Glittering in golden coats , like images ; As full of spirit as the month of May , And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer . I saw young Harry , with his beaver on , His cuisses on his thighs ...
Page 90
... wind blew you hither , Pistol ? Pistol . Not the ill wind which blows no man to good.2 Sc . 3 . A foutre for the world and worldlings base ! I speak of Africa and golden joys . Ibid . Under which king , Bezonian ? speak , or die ! Ibid ...
... wind blew you hither , Pistol ? Pistol . Not the ill wind which blows no man to good.2 Sc . 3 . A foutre for the world and worldlings base ! I speak of Africa and golden joys . Ibid . Under which king , Bezonian ? speak , or die ! Ibid ...
Page 114
... wind , Which I respect not . Ibid . Should I have answer'd Caius Cassius so ? When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous , To lock such rascal counters from his friends , Be ready , gods , with all your thunderbolts : Dash him to pieces ...
... wind , Which I respect not . Ibid . Should I have answer'd Caius Cassius so ? When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous , To lock such rascal counters from his friends , Be ready , gods , with all your thunderbolts : Dash him to pieces ...
Page 118
... wind . I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent , but only Vaulting ambition , which o'erleaps itself , And falls on the other . Ibid . I have bought Golden opinions from all sorts of people . Ibid . Letting " I dare not " wait ...
... wind . I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent , but only Vaulting ambition , which o'erleaps itself , And falls on the other . Ibid . I have bought Golden opinions from all sorts of people . Ibid . Letting " I dare not " wait ...
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