Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature |
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... pleasure . ROBERT SOUTHWELL : St. Peter's Complaint . 1595 . BURNS : Tam O'Shanter . Nae man can tether time or tide . - 3 Fast bind , fast find ; A proverb never stale in thrifty mind . SHAKESPEARE : Merchant of Venice , act ii . se ...
... pleasure . ROBERT SOUTHWELL : St. Peter's Complaint . 1595 . BURNS : Tam O'Shanter . Nae man can tether time or tide . - 3 Fast bind , fast find ; A proverb never stale in thrifty mind . SHAKESPEARE : Merchant of Venice , act ii . se ...
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... pleasures might me move To live with thee , and be thy love . The Nymph's Reply to the Passionate Shepherd . Fain would I , but I dare not ; I dare , and yet I may not ; I may , although I care not , for pleasure when I play not . Fain ...
... pleasures might me move To live with thee , and be thy love . The Nymph's Reply to the Passionate Shepherd . Fain would I , but I dare not ; I dare , and yet I may not ; I may , although I care not , for pleasure when I play not . Fain ...
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... pleasure ta'en ; In brief , sir , study what you most affect . There's small choice in rotten apples . Nothing comes amiss ; so money comes withal . Tush tush ! fear boys with bugs . Sc . 2 . Act i . Sc . 1 . Ibid . Sc . 2 . Ibid . And ...
... pleasure ta'en ; In brief , sir , study what you most affect . There's small choice in rotten apples . Nothing comes amiss ; so money comes withal . Tush tush ! fear boys with bugs . Sc . 2 . Act i . Sc . 1 . Ibid . Sc . 2 . Ibid . And ...
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... pleasure lost which is so deem'd , Not by our feeling , but by others ' seeing . No , I am that I am , and they that level At my abuses reckon up their own . That full star that ushers in the even . So on the tip of his subduing tongue ...
... pleasure lost which is so deem'd , Not by our feeling , but by others ' seeing . No , I am that I am , and they that level At my abuses reckon up their own . That full star that ushers in the even . So on the tip of his subduing tongue ...
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... pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage - ground of truth . Of Truth . Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales , so is the other . Of Death ...
... pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage - ground of truth . Of Truth . Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales , so is the other . Of Death ...
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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 eyes Fable fair fear flower fool Frag give glory grave hand happy hast hath heart heaven Henry Heywood honour hope Hudibras Ibid JOHN King Lady light Line live look Lord man's Maxim Merchant of Venice mind morning Nature ne'er never night numbers o'er pleasure Plutarch poet Pope proverb PUBLIUS SYRUS Richard III Sect Shakespeare sing sleep smile song Sonnet sorrow soul Speech spirit Stanza stars sweet Tale tears thee Themistocles thine things THOMAS THOMAS HEYWOOD thou art thought tongue truth unto viii virtue WILLIAM wind wise woman words young youth