Edge-tools of Speech, Selected and Arranged....Houghton, 1899 - 579 páginas |
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... better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live . - God is the poet ; men are but the actors . The great dramas of earth were written in heaven . - Balzac . Players , sir ! I look upon them as no better than creatures set ...
... better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live . - God is the poet ; men are but the actors . The great dramas of earth were written in heaven . - Balzac . Players , sir ! I look upon them as no better than creatures set ...
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... better , mounts the throne . Dryden . - Is it not monstrous that this player here but in a fiction , in a dream of passion - could force his soul so to his own conceit , that , from her working , all his visage warmed ? — Shakspeare ...
... better , mounts the throne . Dryden . - Is it not monstrous that this player here but in a fiction , in a dream of passion - could force his soul so to his own conceit , that , from her working , all his visage warmed ? — Shakspeare ...
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... better grapes for wine when it is old , because its juices are more perfectly con- cocted . - Bacon . -- I love everything that's old , old friends , old times , old manners , old books , old wine . Goldsmith . Age , when it does not ...
... better grapes for wine when it is old , because its juices are more perfectly con- cocted . - Bacon . -- I love everything that's old , old friends , old times , old manners , old books , old wine . Goldsmith . Age , when it does not ...
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... better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek . — Shakspeare . The Grecian ladies counted their age from their marriage , not their birth . - Homer . Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are ...
... better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek . — Shakspeare . The Grecian ladies counted their age from their marriage , not their birth . - Homer . Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are ...
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... better than the mighty . Solomon . He that contemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her . - L'Estrange . To be wroth with one we love doth work like madness in the brain . - Coleridge . The ...
... better than the mighty . Solomon . He that contemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her . - L'Estrange . To be wroth with one we love doth work like madness in the brain . - Coleridge . The ...
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