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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Page 36
How oft the sight of means to do ill DEEDS Makes ill deeds done ! -
SHAKESPERE , King John . Foul DEEDS will rise , Though all the earth'o'
erwhelm them to men's eyes . Ibid . , Hamlet . Delays . - All DELAYS are
dangerous in war . DRYDEN ...
How oft the sight of means to do ill DEEDS Makes ill deeds done ! -
SHAKESPERE , King John . Foul DEEDS will rise , Though all the earth'o'
erwhelm them to men's eyes . Ibid . , Hamlet . Delays . - All DELAYS are
dangerous in war . DRYDEN ...
Page 43
This phrase is said to have arisen from the circumstance that a part of the public
walks in Old Saint Paul's , London , was called Duke Humphrey's Walk , and that
those who were without the means of defraying their expenses at a tavern were ...
This phrase is said to have arisen from the circumstance that a part of the public
walks in Old Saint Paul's , London , was called Duke Humphrey's Walk , and that
those who were without the means of defraying their expenses at a tavern were ...
Page 45
Often the cockloft is EMPTY in those whom Nature hath built many stories high .--
T . FULLER , Andronicus . End . - The END must justify the means .-- PRIOR ,
Hans Carvel . Ends . - There's a divinity that shapes our ENDS , Rough - hew
them ...
Often the cockloft is EMPTY in those whom Nature hath built many stories high .--
T . FULLER , Andronicus . End . - The END must justify the means .-- PRIOR ,
Hans Carvel . Ends . - There's a divinity that shapes our ENDS , Rough - hew
them ...
Page 49
There is some soul of goodness in things EVIL , Would men observingly distil it
out .-- SHAKESPERE , Henry V. Example . - EXAMPLE is more forcible than
precept . People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the
seventh .
There is some soul of goodness in things EVIL , Would men observingly distil it
out .-- SHAKESPERE , Henry V. Example . - EXAMPLE is more forcible than
precept . People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the
seventh .
Page 60
BURNS , Scotch Drink . When FORTUNE means to men most good , She looks
upon them with a threatening eye . SHAKESPERE , King John . Fragments . —
Gather up the FRAGMENTS that remain , that nothing be lost . —John , vi , 12 .
BURNS , Scotch Drink . When FORTUNE means to men most good , She looks
upon them with a threatening eye . SHAKESPERE , King John . Fragments . —
Gather up the FRAGMENTS that remain , that nothing be lost . —John , vi , 12 .
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Popular passages
Page 25 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in— glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Page 17 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 184 - That to the observer doth thy history Fully unfold. Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 163 - And, for the day, confin'd to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul...
Page 155 - Their dearest action in the tented field, And little of this great •world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle, And therefore little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience, I will a round...
Page 169 - I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres; Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood : — List, list, O list!
Page 88 - Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Page 110 - I have of late— but wherefore I know not— lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 173 - That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make 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 undiscover'd 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?
Page 165 - No more of that : — I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
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| Title | 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 ... Henry Grady Library series |
| Author | G.W. Carleton & Co |
| Publisher | G.W. Carleton & Company, 1878 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 30 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 340 pages |
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