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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... Sleep , son of the sable Night , Brother to Death , in silent darkness born . 1 Prosperum ac felix scelus Virtus vocatur To Delia . Sonnet 51 . ( Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue ) . SENECA Herc . Furens , ii . 250 . 2 ...
... Sleep , son of the sable Night , Brother to Death , in silent darkness born . 1 Prosperum ac felix scelus Virtus vocatur To Delia . Sonnet 51 . ( Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue ) . SENECA Herc . Furens , ii . 250 . 2 ...
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... sleep come upon me . Act iv . Sc . 1 . I have had a dream , past the wit of man to say what dream it was . Ibid . The eye of man hath not heard , the ear of man hath not seen , man's hand is not able to taste , his tongue to conceive ...
... sleep come upon me . Act iv . Sc . 1 . I have had a dream , past the wit of man to say what dream it was . Ibid . The eye of man hath not heard , the ear of man hath not seen , man's hand is not able to taste , his tongue to conceive ...
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... sleep , O gentle sleep , Nature's soft nurse ! how have I frighted thee , That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? With all appliances and means to boot . Uneasy lies the head that wears a ...
... sleep , O gentle sleep , Nature's soft nurse ! how have I frighted thee , That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? With all appliances and means to boot . Uneasy lies the head that wears a ...
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... sleep will never lie . Thy old groans ring yet in my ancient ears . Stabbed with a white wench's black eye . The courageous captain of complements . Sc . 3 . Ibid . Ibid . Sc . 4 . Ibid . 1 Perjuria ridet amantum Jupiter ( Jupiter ...
... sleep will never lie . Thy old groans ring yet in my ancient ears . Stabbed with a white wench's black eye . The courageous captain of complements . Sc . 3 . Ibid . Ibid . Sc . 4 . Ibid . 1 Perjuria ridet amantum Jupiter ( Jupiter ...
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... sleep o ' nights : Fond Cassius has a lean and hungry look ; He thinks too much such men are dangerous . He reads much ; He is a great observer , and he looks Quite through the deeds of men . Julius Cæsar . Act i . Sc . 2 . Seldom he ...
... sleep o ' nights : Fond Cassius has a lean and hungry look ; He thinks too much such men are dangerous . He reads much ; He is a great observer , and he looks Quite through the deeds of men . Julius Cæsar . Act i . Sc . 2 . Seldom he ...
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