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Familiar Quotations

ANONYMOUS BOOKS CITED.

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Annals of Sporting855

Biographia Britannica, note282

Biographia Dramatica, note347

Book of Common Prayer850

British Princes685

Cupid's Whirligig, note446

Deutsche Rechts Alterthümer858

Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys856

Encyclopædia Britannica, note784

Gesta Romanorum802

Health to the Gentle Profession of Serving-men, note360

History of the Family of Courtenay, note802

Letters of Junius688

Marriage of Wit and Wisdom859

Menagiana, note793

New England Primer687

Pierre Patelin, note771

Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum, note293

Return from Parnassus684

Spectator857

The Bible812

The Examiner, May 31, 1829, note313

The Mock Romance, note217

The Nation, note532

The Skylark854

Wheeler's Magazine, note690

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Notes in this chapter

Note 132 · :2] For angling rod he took a sturdy oak; For line, a cable that in storm ne'er broke; . . . . . His hook was baited with a dragon's tailNote 1 · :1] Our author, for the advantage of this play ("Appius and Virginia"), had invented a new species of thunder, which was approved of by the Note 2 · :2] On the 14th of February, 1741, Macklin established his fame as an actor in the character of Shylock, in the "Merchant of Venice." . . . Note 3 · :2] Man was made when Nature was But an apprentice, but woman when she Was a skilful mistress of her art. Cupid's Whirligig (1607).Note 4 · :5] The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.—Paracelsus, 1490-1541. (From the EnNote 5 · :2] Clarke: Paræmiolgia, 1639.Note 6 · :2] Richard Gough, in the "Sepulchral Monuments of Great Britain," gives this epitaph of Robert Byrkes, which is to be found in Doncaster ChNote 7 · :2] These lines are a translation of a Latin epigram (erroneously ascribed to Henry Aldrich in the "Biographia Britannica," second edition, Note 8 · :1] "Revenons à nos moutons,"—a proverb taken from the French farce of "Pierre Patelin," edition of 1762, p. 90.Note 9 · :1] Use three physicians Still: first, Dr. Quiet; Next, Dr. Merryman, And Dr. Dyet. Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum (edition 1607).Note 10 · :1] The following lines are copied from the pillar erected on the mount in the Dane John Field, Canterbury:—Note 11 · :2] When the State of Pennsylvania held its convention to consider the Constitution of the United States, Judge Wilson said of the introductNote 12 · :1] These lines having been incorrectly printed in a London publication, we have been favoured by the author with an authentic copy of them.
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