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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... hours of bliss have been , Like ANGEL - VISITS , few and far between . CAMPBELL , Pleasures of Hope . Angels ' Visits . - How fading are the joys we dote upon ! Like apparitions seen and gone ; But those which soonest take their flight ...
... hours of bliss have been , Like ANGEL - VISITS , few and far between . CAMPBELL , Pleasures of Hope . Angels ' Visits . - How fading are the joys we dote upon ! Like apparitions seen and gone ; But those which soonest take their flight ...
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... hour , And gather honey all the day , From every opening flower . - Ibid . , Song xx . Beef . - Oh ! the roast BEEF of Old England , And oh ! the old English roast beef . - FIELDING . Beer . What two ideas are more inseparable than BEER ...
... hour , And gather honey all the day , From every opening flower . - Ibid . , Song xx . Beef . - Oh ! the roast BEEF of Old England , And oh ! the old English roast beef . - FIELDING . Beer . What two ideas are more inseparable than BEER ...
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... hour , I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower , But ' twas the first to fade away . I never nursed a dear gazelle , To glad me with its soft black eye , But when it came to know me well , And love me , it was ...
... hour , I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower , But ' twas the first to fade away . I never nursed a dear gazelle , To glad me with its soft black eye , But when it came to know me well , And love me , it was ...
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... hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem : To spare thee now is past my pow'r , Thou bonnie gem . - BURNS , To a Daisy . Myriads of DAISIES have shown forth in flower Near the lark's nest , and in their natural hour ...
... hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem : To spare thee now is past my pow'r , Thou bonnie gem . - BURNS , To a Daisy . Myriads of DAISIES have shown forth in flower Near the lark's nest , and in their natural hour ...
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... hour , TENNYSON , Queen Mary . See the front o ' battle lour . — BURNS , Scots wha hae . Sweet DAY , so cool , so calm , so bright , The bridal of the earth and sky.-G. HERBERT , Virtue . The DAY is done , and the darkness Falls from ...
... hour , TENNYSON , Queen Mary . See the front o ' battle lour . — BURNS , Scots wha hae . Sweet DAY , so cool , so calm , so bright , The bridal of the earth and sky.-G. HERBERT , Virtue . The DAY is done , and the darkness Falls from ...
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