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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... thought better to incur the risk of erring on the side of fulness . " With the many additions to the English writers , the present edition contains selections from the French , and from the wit and wisdom of the ancients . A few pas ...
... thought better to incur the risk of erring on the side of fulness . " With the many additions to the English writers , the present edition contains selections from the French , and from the wit and wisdom of the ancients . A few pas ...
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... thought the travell long ; But eies and eares and ev'ry thought Were with his sweete perfections caught . Ibid . This piece ( ascribed to Spenser ) was printed in The Phonix ' Nest , 4to , 1593 , where it is anonymous Mathew Roydon ...
... thought the travell long ; But eies and eares and ev'ry thought Were with his sweete perfections caught . Ibid . This piece ( ascribed to Spenser ) was printed in The Phonix ' Nest , 4to , 1593 , where it is anonymous Mathew Roydon ...
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... thoughts come from the heart.- VAUVENARGUES : Maxim cxxvii . 2 He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts . - FLETCHER : Love's Cure , act iii . sc . 3 . - 8 Many - headed multitude . SHAKESPEARE : Coriolanus , act ii ...
... thoughts come from the heart.- VAUVENARGUES : Maxim cxxvii . 2 He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts . - FLETCHER : Love's Cure , act iii . sc . 3 . - 8 Many - headed multitude . SHAKESPEARE : Coriolanus , act ii ...
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... thought , And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument , Smiling at grief . Twelfth Night . Act ü . Sc . 4 I am all the daughters of my father's house , And all the brothers too . Ibid . An you had any eye ...
... thought , And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument , Smiling at grief . Twelfth Night . Act ü . Sc . 4 I am all the daughters of my father's house , And all the brothers too . Ibid . An you had any eye ...
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... thoughts are much according to their inclina- tion , their discourse and speeches according to their learning and ... thought . " See Shakespeare , page 90 . 2 Every man is the architect of his own fortune . - PSEUDO - SALLUST : Epist ...
... thoughts are much according to their inclina- tion , their discourse and speeches according to their learning and ... thought . " See Shakespeare , page 90 . 2 Every man is the architect of his own fortune . - PSEUDO - SALLUST : Epist ...
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