Dictionary of Quotations: (English)S. Sonnenschein, 1897 - 510 páginas |
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... hand is worth two in the bush . " Old Proverb . BUNYAN . Pilgrim's Progress ( Interpreter ) , Bk . I. A bird's weight can break the infant tree Which after holds the aery in his arms . " R. BROWNING . Luria ( Domizia ) , Act IV . " A ...
... hand is worth two in the bush . " Old Proverb . BUNYAN . Pilgrim's Progress ( Interpreter ) , Bk . I. A bird's weight can break the infant tree Which after holds the aery in his arms . " R. BROWNING . Luria ( Domizia ) , Act IV . " A ...
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... hand oils the wheels as they run . " OUIDA . Moths , Chap . XXIII . 66 ' ( It is ) a custom More honour'd in the breach than the observance . " SHAKESPEARE . Hamlet ( Hamlet ) , Act I. , Sc . IV . " A Daniel come to judgment ! yea , a ...
... hand oils the wheels as they run . " OUIDA . Moths , Chap . XXIII . 66 ' ( It is ) a custom More honour'd in the breach than the observance . " SHAKESPEARE . Hamlet ( Hamlet ) , Act I. , Sc . IV . " A Daniel come to judgment ! yea , a ...
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... hand to bless . " CHURCHILL . Prophecy of Famine , line 178 . " A heart to resolve , a head to contrive , and a hand to execute . " GIBBON . Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Ch . XLVIII . " A heart unspotted is not easily daunted ...
... hand to bless . " CHURCHILL . Prophecy of Famine , line 178 . " A heart to resolve , a head to contrive , and a hand to execute . " GIBBON . Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Ch . XLVIII . " A heart unspotted is not easily daunted ...
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... hand , Must be as boisterously maintain'd as gain'd ; And he that stands upon a slippery place , Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up . " SHAKESPEARE . King John ( Pandulpho ) , Act III . , Sc . IV . " A sensitive plant in a garden ...
... hand , Must be as boisterously maintain'd as gain'd ; And he that stands upon a slippery place , Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up . " SHAKESPEARE . King John ( Pandulpho ) , Act III . , Sc . IV . " A sensitive plant in a garden ...
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(English) Philip Hugh Dalbiac. A SIGHT TO SHAKE - A SPENDING HAND . " A sight to shake The midriff of despair with ... hand that alway poureth out , Hath nede to have a bringer - in as fast . " SIR T. WYATT . How to Use the Court and ...
(English) Philip Hugh Dalbiac. A SIGHT TO SHAKE - A SPENDING HAND . " A sight to shake The midriff of despair with ... hand that alway poureth out , Hath nede to have a bringer - in as fast . " SIR T. WYATT . How to Use the Court and ...
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Página 305 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life ; But that the dread of something after death, — The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, — puzzles the will ; And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Página 53 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, 0 Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
Página 189 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Página 139 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Página 189 - O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Página 121 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, 'With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come...
Página 227 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge...
Página 334 - When lovely woman stoops to folly. And finds, too late, that men betray. What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover. To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, — is to die.
Página 170 - Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Página 348 - Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp; Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd, and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable; and, humour'd thus, Comes at the last, and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and farewell, king!