Magill's Quotations in Context, Τόμος 1

Tench Francis Tilghman

Harper & Row, 1965 - 1230 σελίδες

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.

Περιεχόμενα

• Almighty dollar The: 28
• And is there honey still for tea?: 34
• Angels and ministers of grace defend us: 40
• As cold as any stone: 46
• Athlete was always a man that was not sthrong enough fr wurruk An: 59
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Game is up The: 283
• Get thee behind me Satan: 286
• 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
• count religion but a childish toy: 420
• dote on myself: 426
• have fought a good fight: 432
• have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny: 438
• long to talk with some old lovers ghost: 444
• shot an arrow into the air: 450

Πληροφορίες βιβλιογραφίας

• Τίτλος: Magill's Quotations in Context, Τόμος 1
• Συγγραφέας: Tench Francis Tilghman
• Επιμελητές: Frank Northen Magill, Tench Francis Tilghman
• Εκδότης: Harper & Row, 1965
• Μέγεθος: 1230 σελίδες