Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Sources Passages and Phrases in Common UseLittle, Brown, 1877 - 864 pages |
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... Essays . Ed . 1625 . No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage - ground of truth . Essay . Of Truth . Virtue is like precious odours , most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.1 Essay v . Of Adversity . He that ...
... Essays . Ed . 1625 . No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage - ground of truth . Essay . Of Truth . Virtue is like precious odours , most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.1 Essay v . Of Adversity . He that ...
Page 142
... Essay xix . Empire . God Almighty first planted a garden . Some books are to swallowed , and some digested . Essay xlvi . Of Gardens . be tasted , others to be few to be chewed and Essay . Of Studies . Reading maketh a full man ...
... Essay xix . Empire . God Almighty first planted a garden . Some books are to swallowed , and some digested . Essay xlvi . Of Gardens . be tasted , others to be few to be chewed and Essay . Of Studies . Reading maketh a full man ...
Page 150
... of Melancholy , Pt . iii . Sc . 3 . Mem . 1. Subs . 2. Herbert , Jacula Prudentum . Gran- ger , Golden Aphroditis . 4 Compare Bacon , Essay xvi . Atheism . BEN JONSON . 1574-1637.1 Drink to me only with thine 150 Barnfield . - Donne .
... of Melancholy , Pt . iii . Sc . 3 . Mem . 1. Subs . 2. Herbert , Jacula Prudentum . Gran- ger , Golden Aphroditis . 4 Compare Bacon , Essay xvi . Atheism . BEN JONSON . 1574-1637.1 Drink to me only with thine 150 Barnfield . - Donne .
Page 154
... . Ibid . Milton , Par . Lost , Book ii . Line S04 . 3 See Lady Montague , post , p . 321 . 4 An honest man ' s the noblest work of God . Pope , Essay on Man , Ep . iv . Line 248 . And he that will to bed go sober , Falls.
... . Ibid . Milton , Par . Lost , Book ii . Line S04 . 3 See Lady Montague , post , p . 321 . 4 An honest man ' s the noblest work of God . Pope , Essay on Man , Ep . iv . Line 248 . And he that will to bed go sober , Falls.
Page 171
... of getting out . — Montaigne , Essays , Ch . v . Vol . iii . Wedlock , indeed , hath oft compared been To public feasts , where meet a public rout , Condemn you me for that the duke did love me Lovelace . - Webster . 171.
... of getting out . — Montaigne , Essays , Ch . v . Vol . iii . Wedlock , indeed , hath oft compared been To public feasts , where meet a public rout , Condemn you me for that the duke did love me Lovelace . - Webster . 171.
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