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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... lost , Why , then we rack the value ; then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours . Much Ado about Nothing . Act iv . Sc . 1 . The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination , And ...
... lost , Why , then we rack the value ; then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours . Much Ado about Nothing . Act iv . Sc . 1 . The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination , And ...
Page 54
... Lost . Act i . Sc . 1 . Light seeking light doth light of light beguile . Small have continual plodders ever won Save base authority from others ' books . These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights That give a name to every fixed star ...
... Lost . Act i . Sc . 1 . Light seeking light doth light of light beguile . Small have continual plodders ever won Save base authority from others ' books . These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights That give a name to every fixed star ...
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... Lost , Act i . Sc . 2 . A man of sovereign parts he is esteem'd ; Well fitted in arts , glorious in arms : Nothing becomes him ill that he would well . A merrier man , Within the limit of becoming mirth , I never spent an hour's talk ...
... Lost , Act i . Sc . 2 . A man of sovereign parts he is esteem'd ; Well fitted in arts , glorious in arms : Nothing becomes him ill that he would well . A merrier man , Within the limit of becoming mirth , I never spent an hour's talk ...
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... Lost . Act iv . Sc . 3 As sweet and musical 1 As bright Apollo's lute , strung with his hair ; And when Love speaks , the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony . From women's eyes this doctrine I derive : They ...
... Lost . Act iv . Sc . 3 As sweet and musical 1 As bright Apollo's lute , strung with his hair ; And when Love speaks , the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony . From women's eyes this doctrine I derive : They ...
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... lost . One fire burns out another's burning , Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish . " That book in many's eyes doth share the glory That in gold clasps locks in the golden story . Sc . 2 . Sc . 3 . For I am ...
... lost . One fire burns out another's burning , Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish . " That book in many's eyes doth share the glory That in gold clasps locks in the golden story . Sc . 2 . Sc . 3 . For I am ...
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