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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Page 110
... lost the breed of noble bloods ! Ibid There was a Brutus once that would have brook'd The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome As easily as a king . Ibid . Let me have men about me that are fat , 110 SHAKESPEARE .
... lost the breed of noble bloods ! Ibid There was a Brutus once that would have brook'd The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome As easily as a king . Ibid . Let me have men about me that are fat , 110 SHAKESPEARE .
Page 131
... eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood . List , list , O , list ! Sc . 5 And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed That roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf . Ibid 1 And makes night hideous . - POPE : The Dunciad ...
... eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood . List , list , O , list ! Sc . 5 And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed That roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf . Ibid 1 And makes night hideous . - POPE : The Dunciad ...
Page 161
... eternal summer shall not fade . The painful warrior famoused for fight , ' After a thousand victories , once foil'd , Is from the books of honour razed quite , And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd . When to the sessions of sweet ...
... eternal summer shall not fade . The painful warrior famoused for fight , ' After a thousand victories , once foil'd , Is from the books of honour razed quite , And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd . When to the sessions of sweet ...
Page 221
... eternal home : Leaving the old , both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new . On the Divine Poems . THOMAS FULLER . 1608-1661 . Drawing near her death , she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven ...
... eternal home : Leaving the old , both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new . On the Divine Poems . THOMAS FULLER . 1608-1661 . Drawing near her death , she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven ...
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... eternal Providence , And justify the ways of God to men.1 Line 22 . As far as angels ' ken . Line 59 . Yet from those flames No light , but rather darkness visible . Line 62 . Where peace And rest can never dwell , hope never comes That ...
... eternal Providence , And justify the ways of God to men.1 Line 22 . As far as angels ' ken . Line 59 . Yet from those flames No light , but rather darkness visible . Line 62 . Where peace And rest can never dwell , hope never comes That ...
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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