English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases Collected from the Most Authentic Sources: Alphabetically Arranged and Annotated, with Much Matter Not Previously Published ... |
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Anglia Antiq Appius and Virginia ballad Bawtry beggar better bird blind buys called Candlemas Cheshire circâ cock Coll comes Comp Cornw Cornwall crow devil Doister doth drink Dyce East Anglia edit English fair Faiths and Folklore fool Gascoigne's give Glossary goes goose hanged hath haue Hazlitt's Dodsley Hazlitt's Pop head Help to Discourse Hertfordshire Heywood Higson's MSS horse Ital Ital.-R John King knave Lancashire leonine verse Lincolnshire live London Lord man's mare meat merry never night Notes and Queries one's Paston Letters Pegge's Kenticisms phrase Pilgarlick play Poetry poor proverb purse quoted rain Ralph Roister Doister repr rich Roxb Saffron Walden saith soon Span.-R speaks Suffolk thee things thou tongue tract verso WALKER weather wife wind wise woman words
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Page 291 - Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky ; Thou dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot: Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp As friend remembered not.
Page 269 - in before him an old man with a white head, and one that was thought to be little less than an hundred years old. When Mr. Moore saw this aged man, he thought it expedient to hear him say his mind in this matter; for being so old a man, it was likely that he knew most in that
Page 269 - steeple, and I may remember when there was no steeple at all there. And before that Tenterden steeple was in building, there was no manner of talking of any flats or sands that stopped 'up the haven; and therefore, I think that Tenterden steeple is the
Page 213 - or did a sable eloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night ? I did not err ; there does a sable eloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And easts
Page 269 - of Goodwin's Sands. For I am an old man, Sir (quoth he) ; I may remember the building of Tenterden steeple, and I may remember when there was no steeple at all there. And before that Tenterden steeple was in building, there was no manner of talking of any
Page 77 - For every evil under the sun, there is a remedy, or there is none : if there be one, try and find it; if there be none, never mind it. For
Page 109 - He that will not sail till all dangers are over, must never put to sea. He that will not sail till he have a full fair wind will lose many a voyage. He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.
Page 269 - say most to it, or at leastwise more than any man here assembled. Yea, forsooth, good Mr. Moore, quoth this old man, for I am well nigh an hundred years old, and no man here in this
Page 202 - Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind. Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more
Page 77 - For want of a nail the shoe is lost; for want of a shoe the horse is lost ; for want of a horse the rider is lost.