Carleton's Hand-book of Popular Quotations: A Book of Ready Reference for Such Familiar Words, Phrases and Expressions as are Oftenest Quoted and Met with in General Literature ; Together with Their Authorship and Position in the Original : Also, a Carefully Prepared List of Popular Quotations from the Latin, French and Other Languages |
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... honour , sweet humanity , Calm fortitude , take root , and strongly flourish . - MALLET AND THOMSON . AFFLICTION's sons are brothers in distress ; A brother to relieve , how exquisite the bliss ! BURNS , A Winter's Night . Age . - AGE ...
... honour , sweet humanity , Calm fortitude , take root , and strongly flourish . - MALLET AND THOMSON . AFFLICTION's sons are brothers in distress ; A brother to relieve , how exquisite the bliss ! BURNS , A Winter's Night . Age . - AGE ...
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... honour of the Vicar of Wakefield , ' which , being facetiously pronounced through the nose , became Boses , and being shortened , Boz . Boz was a very familiar household word to me long before I was an author , and so I came to adopt it ...
... honour of the Vicar of Wakefield , ' which , being facetiously pronounced through the nose , became Boses , and being shortened , Boz . Boz was a very familiar household word to me long before I was an author , and so I came to adopt it ...
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... honour and of cavaliers . I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult . But THE AGE OF CHIVALRY IS GONE . That of sophisters , economists , and calculators ...
... honour and of cavaliers . I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult . But THE AGE OF CHIVALRY IS GONE . That of sophisters , economists , and calculators ...
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... honoured in the breach , than the observance . SHAKESPERE , Hamlet . Cut . This was the most unkindest CUT of all . — Ibid . , Julius Cæsar . Cut off . CUT OFF even in the blossoms of my sin , Unhousel'd , disappointed , unaneled ; No ...
... honoured in the breach , than the observance . SHAKESPERE , Hamlet . Cut . This was the most unkindest CUT of all . — Ibid . , Julius Cæsar . Cut off . CUT OFF even in the blossoms of my sin , Unhousel'd , disappointed , unaneled ; No ...
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... honour . And , nursed together , make a conqueror ; Divided , but a talker . - BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER . DISCRETION the best part of valour . — Ibid . The better part of valour is DISCRETION . —SHAKESPERE , Henry IV . CHURCHILL , The ...
... honour . And , nursed together , make a conqueror ; Divided , but a talker . - BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER . DISCRETION the best part of valour . — Ibid . The better part of valour is DISCRETION . —SHAKESPERE , Henry IV . CHURCHILL , The ...
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