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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... sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here we will sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears : soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony . Sit , Jessica . Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid ...
... sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here we will sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears : soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony . Sit , Jessica . Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid ...
Page 66
... sweet sounds , Is fit for treasons , stratagems , and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night , And his affections dark as Erebus . Let no such man be trusted . The Merchant of Venice . Act v . Sc . 1 . How far that little ...
... sweet sounds , Is fit for treasons , stratagems , and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night , And his affections dark as Erebus . Let no such man be trusted . The Merchant of Venice . Act v . Sc . 1 . How far that little ...
Page 74
... sweet . If music be the food of love , play on ; Give me excess of it , that , surfeiting , The appetite may sicken , and so die . That strain again ! it had a dying fall : O , it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound 2 That breathes ...
... sweet . If music be the food of love , play on ; Give me excess of it , that , surfeiting , The appetite may sicken , and so die . That strain again ! it had a dying fall : O , it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound 2 That breathes ...
Page 78
... Sweet , sweet , sweet poison for the age's tooth . For courage mounteth with occasion . I would that I were low laid in my grave : I am not worth this coil that ' s made for me . Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . Act ii . Sc . 1 . Ibid Saint George ...
... Sweet , sweet , sweet poison for the age's tooth . For courage mounteth with occasion . I would that I were low laid in my grave : I am not worth this coil that ' s made for me . Ibid . Ibid . Ibid . Act ii . Sc . 1 . Ibid Saint George ...
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... sweet voices . Ibid . Hear you this Triton of the minnows ? Mark you His absolute " shall " ? Enough , with over - measure . Act iii Sc . 1 . Ibid . His nature is too noble for the world : He would not flatter Neptune for his trident ...
... sweet voices . Ibid . Hear you this Triton of the minnows ? Mark you His absolute " shall " ? Enough , with over - measure . Act iii Sc . 1 . Ibid . His nature is too noble for the world : He would not flatter Neptune for his trident ...
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