Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading merriamwebsters dictionary of quotations. Publication date 1994 topics films, cinema, reference works, reference, motion pictures general, cinemafilm. Quotefolio dictionary of quotations a large compendium of quotationsespecially modern ones. The lover s dictionary download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. We revel in quotations, compete to know them, love them, hate them and inscribe them. Foreign words and phrases 1997 and of the oxford dictionary of idioms. Together with a description of the country of the lakes in the north of england, p. Top 25 quotes by william wordsworth of 476 az quotes. Merriamwebsters dictionary of quotations kindle edition. Wordsworth says somewhere that wherever virgil seems to have composed. Mark twain and dorothy parker, from the other side of the pond, and p. The wordsworth dictionary of shakespeare quotations. Quotes from famous political leaders, authors, and literature.
Air 349 breathe 45 enjoyment 35 faith 203 flower 106 art thou the bird whom man loves best. The wordsworth dictionary of drink download ebook pdf. Eliot sigmund freud poems of places nathaniel hawthorne u. Bartletts quotations robert frost proverbs and maxims william wordsworth t. Inaugurals modern poetry buy the books published at bartleby. Saxon words to which the articles in this dictionary relate, see note 1 above. Essays in criticism second series, wordsworth see john campbell 1. The wordsworth dictionary of film quotations by crawley, tony. We revel in quotations, compete to know them, love them, hate them and inscribe them in books and on buildings, and this freshly revised and updated dictionary includes a wealth of new material among its,000 familiar, serious, outrageous, witty and thoughtprovoking entries.
The wordsworth dictionary attributes this quote to plato, but curiously does not cite from which book of platos writings the quotation is derived. Which historical events or figures featured in the dictionary have most influenced your study of quotations. The wordsworth dictionary of musical quotations in searchworks. Including phrases, mottoes, maxims, proverbs, definitions, aphorisms, and sayings of wise men, in their bearing on life, literature, speculation, science, art, religion, and morals, especially in the modern aspects of them. Download the ebook oxford dictionary of quotations. Home dictionary of science quotations scientist names index w william wordsworth. This dictionary has been compiled from extensive evidence of the quotations that. The wordsworth dictionary of bible quotations download the wordsworth dictionary of bible quotations ebook pdf or read online books in pdf, epub, and mobi format. The book begins with a preface explaining the term quotation.
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The remotest discoveries of the chemist, the botanist, or the mineralogist, will be as proper objects of the poets art as any upon which it can be employed, if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us, and the relations under which they are contemplated by the followers of these respective sciences shall be manifestly and palpably material to us as enjoying and. A dictionary of quotations on physics and astronomy institute of physics. The oxford dictionary of quotations and bart the yale book of. If they enclose latin words, they indicate the lemmata of anglo. Websters new world dictionary of quotations features more than 20,000 entries from over 4,000 sources. The wordsworth dictionary of quotations wordsworth.
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