Shakespeare Proverbs: Or, The Wise Saws of Our Wisest Poet Collected Into a Modern InstanceChapman and Hall, 1848 - 145 páginas |
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... rich , will find the price of this small volume to be such as will enable them also to make it their pocket - companion . In venturing to put an explanatory note here and there , the object in view was , of course , the conve- nience of ...
... rich , will find the price of this small volume to be such as will enable them also to make it their pocket - companion . In venturing to put an explanatory note here and there , the object in view was , of course , the conve- nience of ...
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... lie . Conceit , more rich in matter than in words , Brags of his substance , not of ornament . Conscience does make cowards of us all . Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works . W.R.S. UTY never yet did want his meed . Dumb 25 C.
... lie . Conceit , more rich in matter than in words , Brags of his substance , not of ornament . Conscience does make cowards of us all . Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works . W.R.S. UTY never yet did want his meed . Dumb 25 C.
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... rich are fair . Fools are not mad folks . Famine , Ere clean it o'erthrow nature , makes it valiant . Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer'd . Few love to hear the sins they love to act . Flattery is the bellows blows up sin ...
... rich are fair . Fools are not mad folks . Famine , Ere clean it o'erthrow nature , makes it valiant . Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer'd . Few love to hear the sins they love to act . Flattery is the bellows blows up sin ...
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... rich in virtue , and unmingled . It is the bright day that brings forth the adder , And that craves wary walking . In time we hate that which we often fear . I'll take thy word for faith , not ask thine oath : Who shuns not to break one ...
... rich in virtue , and unmingled . It is the bright day that brings forth the adder , And that craves wary walking . In time we hate that which we often fear . I'll take thy word for faith , not ask thine oath : Who shuns not to break one ...
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... rich ends . Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage . Many can brook the weather , that love not the wind . Men that hazard all , Do it in hope of fair advantages . Mercy is not itself , that oft looks so ; Pardon is still the nurse ...
... rich ends . Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage . Many can brook the weather , that love not the wind . Men that hazard all , Do it in hope of fair advantages . Mercy is not itself , that oft looks so ; Pardon is still the nurse ...
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Shakespeare Proverbs; Or, The Wise Saws of Our Wisest Poet Collected Into a ... William Shakespeare Visualização integral - 1908 |
Shakespeare Proverbs: Or, The Wise Saws of Our Wisest Poet Collected Into a ... William Shakespeare,Mary Cowden Clarke Visualização integral - 1848 |
Shakespeare Proverbs: Or the Wise Saws of Our Wisest Poet Collected Into a ... Mary Cowden Clarke Pré-visualização indisponível - 2018 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
adder All's bear beetle betimes blood blows breath calumny canker counsel cowards death deeds delay devil doth dross dull dust ends enemy evil eyes fair fall false fault fear FETTER LANE fire flattery folly fool fortune foul giddy give glistering gods goes gold golden grief grow hangs hath heart heaven hide hollow honest honour Jove keep kings LENOX LIBRARY light lives man's marriage MARY COWDEN CLARKE men's mercy merry mind Misery nature ne'er nettle never o'er oath ourselves patience poor praise raven rich robb'd scape shew Slander sleep sloth smiles sorrow soul speak sport steal strong sun shines sweet sweetest There's thief things thou thoughts Tis better tongue toothache traitors Treason true truth turns twill valiant valour venom vice vile viperous virtue weakest wear what's wind wisdom wise woman words worm worst wren youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 64 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.
Página 103 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Página 76 - For nought so vile that on the earth doth live, But to the earth some special good doth give ; Nor aught so good, but, strain'd from that fair use, Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse : Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime 's by action dignified.
Página 15 - Mark you this, Bassanio, The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul, producing holy witness, Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! Shy.
Página 74 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Página 101 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils : The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Página 53 - If to do were as easy as to know what were^ good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Página 132 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Página 94 - tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
Página 20 - It will have blood, they say ; blood will have blood : Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak ; Augurs, and understood relations, have By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth The secret'st man of blood.