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"That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears."
Canterbury Tales. The Knightes Tale. Line 1524.
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"For out of the old fieldes, as men saithe, Cometh al this new corne fro yere to yere; And out of old bookes, in good faithe, Cometh al this new science that men lere."
The Assembly of Fowles. Line 22.
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"Fieldes have eies and woods have eares."
Proverbes. Part ii. Chap. v.
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"As when in Cymbrian plaine An heard of bulles, whom kindly rage doth sting, Doe for the milky mothers want complaine, And fill the fieldes with troublous bellowing."
Faerie Queene. Book i. Canto viii. St. 11.
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"Come live with me, and be my love; And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dales and fields, Woods or steepy mountain yields."
The Passionate Shepherd to his Love.
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"In those holy fields Over whose acres walked those blessed feet Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd For our advantage on the bitter cross."
King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"His nose was as sharp as a pen, and a' babbled of green fields."
King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 3.
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"I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die: I think there be six Richmonds in the field."
King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 4.
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"That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows."
Othello. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made."
Address to the Nightingale.
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"Who thought he 'd won The field as certain as a gun."
Hudibras. Part i. Canto iii. Line 11.
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"If he that in the field is slain Be in the bed of honour lain, He that is beaten may be said To lie in honour's truckle-bed."
Hudibras. Part i. Canto iii. Line 1047.
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"What though the field be lost? All is not lost; th' unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield."
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 105.
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"Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: hail, horrors!"
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 249.
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"Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do ingloriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple: who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?"
Areopagitica.
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"Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend."
Epistle to John Dryden of Chesterton. Line 92.
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"And raw in fields the rude militia swarms, Mouths without hands; maintain'd at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence; Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, And ever but in times of need at hand."
Cymon and Iphigenia. Line 400.
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"Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well."
Essay on Poetry.
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"There 's no such thing in Nature; and you 'll draw A faultless monster which the world ne'er saw."
Essay on Poetry.
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"Read Homer once, and you can read no more; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need."
Essay on Poetry.
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"For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground."
A Letter from Italy.
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"Accept a miracle instead of wit,-- See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ."
Lines written with the Diamond Pencil of Lord Chesterfield.
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"Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield."
Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 9.
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"Our business in the field of fight Is not to question, but to prove our might."
The Iliad of Homer. Book xx. Line 304.
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"Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well."
Letter, March 10, 1746.
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"I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow, who used to say, "Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves.""
Letter, Nov. 6, 1747.
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"Sacrifice to the Graces."
Letter, March 9, 1748.
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"Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value."
Letter, July 1, 1748.
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"Style is the dress of thoughts."
Letter, Nov. 24, 1749.
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"Despatch is the soul of business."
Letter, Feb. 5, 1750.
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"Chapter of accidents."
Letter, Feb. 16, 1753.
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"I assisted at the birth of that most significant word "flirtation," which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world."
The World. No. 101.
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"Unlike my subject now shall be my song; It shall be witty, and it sha'n't be long."
Impromptu Lines.
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"The dews of the evening most carefully shun,-- Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun."
Advice to a Lady in Autumn.
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"The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom."
Character of Pulteney.
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"He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence."
Character of Bolingbroke.
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"All Nature wears one universal grin."
Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business. To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we."
Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 2.
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"When I 'm not thank'd at all, I 'm thank'd enough; I 've done my duty, and I 've done no more."
Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 3.
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"Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit."
Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 3.
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"To sun myself in Huncamunca's eyes."
Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 3.
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"Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets, With a third dog one of the two dogs meets; With angry teeth he bites him to the bone, And this dog smarts for what that dog has done."
Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 6.
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"I am as sober as a judge."
Don Quixote in England. Act iii. Sc. 14.
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"Enough is equal to a feast."
The Covent Garden Tragedy. Act v. Sc. 1.
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"We must eat to live and live to eat."
The Miser. Act iii. Sc. 3.
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"Penny saved is a penny got."
The Miser. Act iii. Sc. 12.
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"Oh, the roast beef of England, And old England's roast beef!"
The Grub Street Opera. Act iii. Sc. 2.
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"This story will not go down."
Tumble-down Dick.
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"Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?"
Tom Jones. Book iv. Chap. iv.
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"Distinction without a difference."
Tom Jones. Book vi. Chap. xiii.
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