Magill's Quotations in Context, Band 1Frank Northen Magill, Tench Francis Tilghman Harper & Row, 1965 - 1230 Seiten Drawn from world literature each entry from 2020 quotations, arranged by first word of quotation, gives source, author (with dates), first publication, type of work, and then a full description of the circumstances in which the sayings were used. |
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Almighty dollar The | 28 |
Answer me in one word | 41 |
As unto the bow the cord is so unto the man is woman | 54 |
Ay but to die and go we know not where | 61 |
Barefoot boy with cheek of tan | 67 |
Be secret and exult | 73 |
Beauty is truth truth beauty | 79 |
Bell book and candle | 85 |
Flesh of my flesh | 252 |
Fling away ambition | 253 |
Fool doth think he is wise but the wise man knows himself to be a fool The | 259 |
For in the stars is written the death of every man | 265 |
Fought all his battles over again | 271 |
From battle and murder and from sudden death | 277 |
Game is up The | 283 |
Get thee behind me Satan | 286 |
Beware of false prophets | 91 |
Biggest fish I caught got away The | 94 |
Blood more stirs to rouse a lion than to start a hare The | 100 |
Boys will is the winds will A | 106 |
Broken and a contrite heart A | 112 |
have promises to keep | 118 |
By the shores of Gitche Gumee | 124 |
Call me Ishmael | 125 |
Caparisons dont become a young woman | 131 |
Child is father of the man The | 137 |
Clay lies still but bloods a rover | 143 |
Come off scotfree | 149 |
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods | 155 |
Courage never to submit or yield | 157 |
Crown of glory A | 163 |
Damn the torpedoes | 169 |
Death by inches | 175 |
Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose The | 181 |
Do as I say not as I do | 187 |
Do thy duty Leave to Heaven the rest | 189 |
Double double toil and trouble | 195 |
Earth has not anything to show more fair | 201 |
England never did nor never shall lie at the proud foot of a conqueror | 207 |
Eureka | 213 |
Every subjects duty is the kings but every subjects soul is his own | 219 |
Evil be thou my good | 222 |
Facts are stubborn things | 228 |
Far from the madding crowds ignoble strife | 234 |
Fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves The | 240 |
Fifteen men on the dead mans chest | 246 |
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given | 292 |
God bless us every one | 298 |
Gods foot upon the treadle of the loom | 304 |
Gone woolgathering | 310 |
Government of laws and not of men A | 316 |
Great god Pan is dead The | 319 |
Grind the faces of the poor | 325 |
Half a league half a league half a league onward | 331 |
Happy Christmas to all and to all a goodnight | 337 |
He builded better than he knew | 343 |
He is all fault who hath no fault at all | 349 |
He makes no friend who never made a foe | 352 |
He that is giddy thinks the world turns round | 358 |
He who can do everything must need fear every man | 364 |
Helen thy beauty is to me like those Nicean barks of yore | 370 |
Here is Gods plenty | 376 |
His first best country ever is at home | 382 |
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | 386 |
Hope springs eternal in the human breast | 392 |
How dull it is to pause to make an end to rust unburnished | 398 |
Human kind cannot bear very much reality | 404 |
am looking for a man | 410 |
bear a charmed life | 416 |
heard a fly buzz when I died | 439 |
myself am Heaven and Hell | 445 |
should not dare to call my soul my own | 451 |
Big lie A 93 | |
Gentleman never inflicts pain A 285 | |
Evidence of things not seen The 221 | |
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Magill's Quotations in Context, Second Series, Band 1 Frank Northen Magill,Tench Francis Tilghman Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1969 |