A Complete Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Comprising the Most Excellent and Appropriate Passages in the Old British Poets with Choice and Copious Selections from the Best Modern British and American PoetsSarah Josepha Buell Hale |
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... Hamlet . I shall the effect of this good lesson keep As watchman to my heart . Shaks . Hamlet . " Tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow ; But no man's virtue , nor sufficiency , To be so ...
... Hamlet . I shall the effect of this good lesson keep As watchman to my heart . Shaks . Hamlet . " Tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow ; But no man's virtue , nor sufficiency , To be so ...
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... Hamlet . Though I look old , yet I am strong and lusty : For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood . Shaks . As you like it I know thee not , old man : fall to thy prayers , How ill white hairs become a ...
... Hamlet . Though I look old , yet I am strong and lusty : For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood . Shaks . As you like it I know thee not , old man : fall to thy prayers , How ill white hairs become a ...
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... Hamlet . I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent , but only Vaulting ambition , which o'erleaps itself , And falls on the other side . Shaks . Macbeth . That is a step , On which I must fall down , or else o'erleap , For in my ...
... Hamlet . I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent , but only Vaulting ambition , which o'erleaps itself , And falls on the other side . Shaks . Macbeth . That is a step , On which I must fall down , or else o'erleap , For in my ...
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... Hamlet . The fashion Wears out more apparel than the man . Shaks . Much ado about nothing . We will unto your father's . Ev'n in these honest , mean habiliments : I must rev'rence and prefer the precedent Times before these , which ...
... Hamlet . The fashion Wears out more apparel than the man . Shaks . Much ado about nothing . We will unto your father's . Ev'n in these honest , mean habiliments : I must rev'rence and prefer the precedent Times before these , which ...
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... Hamlet . Mislike me not for my complexion , — The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun , To whom I am a neighbour , and near bred . Shaks . Merchant of Venice . You have slander'd nature in my form ; Which , howsoever rude exteriorly ...
... Hamlet . Mislike me not for my complexion , — The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun , To whom I am a neighbour , and near bred . Shaks . Merchant of Venice . You have slander'd nature in my form ; Which , howsoever rude exteriorly ...
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Bailey's Festus beauty blood breast breath bright Butler's Hudibras Byron's Childe Harold charm clouds Coriolanus Cowper's Task dark death Doge of Venice doth dream Dryden's earth Eliza Cook ev'ry eyes fair fame fear feel flowers fools Gentlemen of Verona Giaour glory grave grief Hamlet hand happy hath heart heaven Henry Henry IV Henry VI honour hope hour Jane Shore Joanna Baillie's Julius Cæsar King light live look lord lov'd Macbeth Merchant of Venice Milton's Paradise Lost mind Miss Landon nature ne'er never O. W. Holmes o'er Othello pain passion peace Pindar pleasure Poems Pope's pride Richard Richard III Romeo and Juliet Rowe's Scott's Shaks sigh sleep smile soft sorrow soul Spenser's Fairy Queen spirit sweet tears thee thine things Thomson's Seasons thou art tongue truth Venice virtue wild wind wretched Young's Night Thoughts youth