A HANDBOOK OF REFERENCE AND QUOTATION.
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Mottoes and Aphorisms from Shakespeare: Alphabetically arranged; with a Copious Index of 9,000 References to the infinitely varied Words and Ideas of the Mottoes. Any word or idea can be traced at once, and the correct quotation (with name of play, act, and scene) had without going further.
“The collection is, we believe, unique of its kind.... It solves in a moment the often difficult question of where a proverb, or aphorism, or quotation from Shakespeare can be found.”—Oxford Times.
“As neat a casket of Shakespearian gems as we ever remember having met with.”—Public Opinion.
“The writer who delights now and then to embellish his productions by some of the well-pointed and telling mottoes and aphorisms from Shakespeare has here a most valuable book of reference.”—Yorkshire Gazette.
“Everything, in these cases, depends on the index, and the index here seems to have been carefully made.”—Sheffield Independent.
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