Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern LiteratureLittle, Brown, 1914 - 1454 pages |
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... Nature by her mother - wit1 Could frame in earth . Faerie Queene . Book iv . Canto x . St. 21 . Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small . Book v . Canto ii . St. 43 . Who will not mercie unto others show , How can he mercy ...
... Nature by her mother - wit1 Could frame in earth . Faerie Queene . Book iv . Canto x . St. 21 . Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small . Book v . Canto ii . St. 43 . Who will not mercie unto others show , How can he mercy ...
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... Nature made her ; beauty cost her nothing , Her virtues were so rare . I tell thee Love is Nature's second sun , Ibid . All Fools . Act i . Sc . 1 . Causing a spring of virtues where he shines . Cornelia . What flowers are these ...
... Nature made her ; beauty cost her nothing , Her virtues were so rare . I tell thee Love is Nature's second sun , Ibid . All Fools . Act i . Sc . 1 . Causing a spring of virtues where he shines . Cornelia . What flowers are these ...
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... nature makes the whole world kin . Ibid . And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er - dusted . Ibid . And like a dew - drop from the lion's mane , Be shook to air . Ibid . His heart and hand both open and both free ...
... nature makes the whole world kin . Ibid . And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er - dusted . Ibid . And like a dew - drop from the lion's mane , Be shook to air . Ibid . His heart and hand both open and both free ...
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... Nature teaches beasts to know their friends . Coriolanus . Act . Sc . 1 . A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in ' t.1 Many - headed multitude.2 Ibid . Sc . 3 . I thank you for your voices : thank you : Your most sweet ...
... Nature teaches beasts to know their friends . Coriolanus . Act . Sc . 1 . A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in ' t.1 Many - headed multitude.2 Ibid . Sc . 3 . I thank you for your voices : thank you : Your most sweet ...
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... nature must obey necessity . Ibid . Brutus . Then I shall see thee again ? Ghost . Ay , at Philippi . Brutus . Why , I will see thee at Philippi , then . But for your words , they rob the Hybla bees , And leave them honeyless . Forever ...
... nature must obey necessity . Ibid . Brutus . Then I shall see thee again ? Ghost . Ay , at Philippi . Brutus . Why , I will see thee at Philippi , then . But for your words , they rob the Hybla bees , And leave them honeyless . Forever ...
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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 eyes fair fear flower fool Frag give glory grave hand happy hath heart heaven Henry Heywood honour hope Hudibras Ibia Ibid immortal JOHN King Lady land light Line live look Lord lost man's Maxim mind morning Nature ne'er never night numbers o'er Omar Khayyám pleasure PLUTARCH poet POPE proverb Publius Syrus rose Sect Shakespeare silent sing sleep smile Song Sonnet sorrow soul Speech Stanza stars sweet Tale tears thee Themistocles There's thine things THOMAS THOMAS HEYWOOD thought tongue true truth virtue wind wise woman words youth