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 165
... young men's mistresses , companions for middle age , and old men's nurses.2 ― Ibid . Men in great place are thrice servants , servants of the sovereign or state , servants of fame , and servants of business . Of Great Place . Mahomet ...
... young men's mistresses , companions for middle age , and old men's nurses.2 ― Ibid . Men in great place are thrice servants , servants of the sovereign or state , servants of fame , and servants of business . Of Great Place . Mahomet ...
Page 167
... Young men are fitter to invent than to judge , fitter for execution than for counsel , and fitter for new projects than for settled business . Virtue is like a rich stone , - Of Youth and Age . - best plain set . Of Beauty . God ...
... Young men are fitter to invent than to judge , fitter for execution than for counsel , and fitter for new projects than for settled business . Virtue is like a rich stone , - Of Youth and Age . - best plain set . Of Beauty . God ...
Page 186
... young ones.2 Ibid . As that great captain , Ziska , would have a drum made of his skin when he was dead , because he thought the very noise of it would put his enemies to flight . Ibid . Like the watermen that row one way and look an ...
... young ones.2 Ibid . As that great captain , Ziska , would have a drum made of his skin when he was dead , because he thought the very noise of it would put his enemies to flight . Ibid . Like the watermen that row one way and look an ...
Page 189
... young physicians , that study to cure diseases , catch them themselves , will be sick , and appropriate all symptoms they find related of others to their own persons . Sect . 3 , Memb . 1 , Subsect . 2 . Aristotle said melancholy men of ...
... young physicians , that study to cure diseases , catch them themselves , will be sick , and appropriate all symptoms they find related of others to their own persons . Sect . 3 , Memb . 1 , Subsect . 2 . Aristotle said melancholy men of ...
Page 220
... young eagle , who has lent his plume To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom , See their own feathers pluck'd to wing the dart Which rank corruption destines for their heart . THOMAS MOORE : Corruption . In such green palaces the ...
... young eagle , who has lent his plume To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom , See their own feathers pluck'd to wing the dart Which rank corruption destines for their heart . THOMAS MOORE : Corruption . In such green palaces the ...
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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