Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Is feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words.

The Gentleman Usher. Act iv. Sc. 1.

To put a girdle round about the world.[36:3]

Bussy D'Ambois. Act i. Sc. 1.

His deeds inimitable, like the sea

That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts

Nor prints of precedent for poor men's facts.

Bussy D'Ambois. Act i. Sc. 1.

So our lives

In acts exemplary, not only win