John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas. (1544–1590) (continued) |
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What is well done is done soon enough. |
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And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by. |
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Night’s black mantle covers all alike. 1 |
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Hot and cold, and moist and dry. 2 |
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Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes), Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes; Who loving novels, full of affectation, Receive the manners of each other nation. 3 |
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With tooth and nail. |
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From the foure corners of the worlde doe haste. 4 |
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Oft seen in forehead of the frowning skies. 5 |
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From north to south, from east to west. 6 |
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Bright-flaming, heat-full fire, The source of motion. 7 |
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Not that the earth doth yield In hill or dale, in forest or in field, A rarer plant. 8 |
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’T is what you will,—or will be what you would. |
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Or savage beasts upon a thousand hils. 9 |
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Note 1. Come civil night,… with thy black mantle.—William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, act iii. sc. 2. [back] |
Note 2. See Milton, Quotation 71. [back] |
Note 3. Report of fashions in proud Italy, Whose manners still our apish nation Limps after in base imitation. William Shakespeare: Richard II. act ii. sc. 1. [back] |
Note 4. See Shakespeare, King John, Quotation 32. [back] |
Note 5. See Milton, Quotation 283. [back] |
Note 6. From north to south, from east to west.—William Shakespeare: Winter’s Tale, act i. sc. 2. [back] |
Note 7. Heat considered as a Mode of Motion (title of a treatise, 1863).—John Tyndall. [back] |
Note 8. See Marlowe, Quotation 4. [back] |
Note 9. The cattle upon a thousand hills.—Psalm i. 10. [back] |