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Familiar Quotations
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
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AUTHOR INDEX
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CONCORDANCE INDEX
John Bartlett, comp.
(1820–1905).
Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
1919.
Concordance Index
A
ARON’S
serpent
to
Abuses me to damn me
Abuses
to
Action action action
Action measured by the sentiment
to
Adversity blessing of the New Testament
Adversity
to
Age ache penury
Age
to
Aim
Aim
to
Alexander and Darius
Alexandrine
to
Almighty difference of purpose between
Almighty form
to
Amiable weakness
Amicably if they can
to
Angels alone enjoy such liberty
Angels trumpet-tongued
to
Antidote
Anti-everythings
to
Aprons of fig leaves
Aprons
to
Armed at all points
Armed thus am I doubly
to
Article of luxury
Articles
to
Atmosphere of dreams
Atomies
to
Awe and majesty
Aweary of the sun
to
Balaam’s ass
Balance
to
Barkis is willin’
Barleycorn
to
Be
Be no better than you should
to
Beauteous
Beauteous eye of heaven
to
Beauty
Beauty smile from partial
to
Before and after
Before we’ve fought the Bear
to
Bells and the Fudges
Bells have knolled to church
to
Best
Best of womankind
to
Bevy of fair women
Bewaileth the fall of the year
to
Biscay
Biscuit
to
Blent
Bless me this is pleasant
to
Bliss
Bliss
to
Blow a shepherd’s reed
Blow on the head
to
Body
Body
to
Book
Book only read perhaps by me
to
Borrow its mirth
Borrow
to
Bower
Bower by Bendemeer’s stream
to
Bray a fool in a mortar
Brayed with minstrelsy
to
Breath
Breath thou art
to
Bright-eyed fancy
Brightly breaks the morning
to
Brothers
Brothers in peace
to
Build as chance will have it
Build the ladder by which
to
Business
Business
to
Calf near three centuries dead
Calf’s-skin on those recreant limbs
to
Cane
Canker and the grief are mine
to
Care
Care
to
Cat and a rat and a coward
Cat will mew
to
Censer
Censure is the tax eminent men pay
to
Change
Change the place but keep the pain
to
Charter large as the wind
Chartered by sorrow and freighted
to
Chickens
Chickens come home to roost
to
Chimney
Chimney-corner
to
Church army physic law
Church
to
Cleanse me
Clear a heaven so
to
Cloud
Cloud
to
Cold and cruel winter
Cold marble leapt to life
to
Come after you with equal grace
Come
to
Companions
Companions for middle age
to
Condition
Conditions
to
Considereth the poor
Consisted of lines like these
to
Cool and gray
Cool sequestered vale
to
Counsel and speak comfort
Counsel
to
Courses even with the sun
Courses
to
Created
Created equal
to
Crier of green sauce
Cries
to
Crown
Crown
to
Cup afloat of the lake-lily
Cup of water
to
Cymbal
Cymbrian
to
Danger
Danger
to
Darkness
Darkness of the land
to
Day after the fair
Day
to
Days
Days are hastening on
to
Dead
Dead in look so woe-begone
to
Death a door that leads to light
Death
to
Death kneeling by his bed
Death the consoler
to
Dedes
Dedicate his beauty to the sun
to
Deeply beautifully blue
Deep-mouthed welcome
to
Delights
Delights to deck our girls for gay
to
Desire and mystery
Desire more love
to
Devil a monk was he
Devil hunting for one fair female
to
Die a bachelor
Die a more painful death
to
Differ
Differ
to
Discontent
Discontent
to
Distant prospects please us
Distant views of happiness
to
Do
Do you know old age may come
to
Done
Done
to
Down among the dead men
Down from his perch
to
Dream
Dream that I forget
to
Drink and to be merry
Drink with him that wears a hood
to
Dull as night
Dull dulness intuitive declares wit
to
Dwell below the skies
Dwell in such a temple
to
Early and provident fear
Early frost
to
Earth
Earth
to
Eat and drink as friends
Eat to live
to
Elder-gun
Eldorado
to
Employments
Employment of idle time
to
Endless cruise
Endless night
to
Enough for man to know
Enough
to
Error
Error welds men together
to
Eve
Eve span and Adam dolve
to
Everything advantageous to life
Everything that pretty is
to
Excess
Excess to be blamed
to
Exultations
Exulting
to
Eyes and eares and every thought
Eyes
to
Face
Face divine
to
Failed of act
Faileth
to
Faith a passionate intuition
Faith is like a lily
to
Falsehood and truth grapple
Falsehoods which we spurn to-day
to
Fancy’s child
Fancy’s course
to
Fast and loose
Fast bind fast find
to
Father’s brother
Father’s house
to
Fears and saucy doubts
Fears
to
Feet
Feet
to
Few and far between
Few immortal names
to
Fights and runs away
Fighter
to
Fire answers fire
Fire
to
Fitted him to a T
Fittest place man can die
to
Flesh and blood can’t bear it
Flesh
to
Flower
Flowers
to
Foe
Foe
to
Fool all of the people all
Fool must now and then be right
to
Force abated
Force is no remedy
to
Forgot
Forgot
to
Forward and frolic glee
Forward as occasion offers
to
Free and fetterless thing
Free as air
to
Friend
Friend
to
Friendship but a name
Friendship
to
Full age
Full fayre sight
to
Gain and gain is gain
Gain
to
Gate
Gate of the west
to
Gentil dedes
Gentil herte
to
Giant arms upbear
Giants in the earth
to
Given
Given us two ears but only one mouth
to
Gloom
Glooms
to
Go ahead
Go by
to
God bless the man who first
God
to
God
God
to
Gold
Gold
to
Good
Good
to
Good name better than precious ointment
Good thing out of Nazareth
to
Grace
Grace
to
Gratitude and love
Gratitude of place-expectants
to
Great Admiral sailed the
Great Hall
to
Greeks
Greeks in common
to
Groan
Groans of the dying
to
Guide in smoke and flame
Guide
to
Hal
Halcyon days
to
Hand
Hand that rounded Peter’s dome
to
Happier in the passion we feel
Happiest dream
to
Hark from the tombs
Harm me
to
Haters
Hathaway
to
Head and front of my offending
Head
to
Hearing ear
Hearings
to
Heart
Heart
to
Hearts and sentiments were free
Hearts
to
Heaven a time ordains
Heaven first taught letters
to
Heaven
Heaven was not heaven if Phaon
to
Hell
Hell from beneath is moved
to
Heritage
Heritage
to
Hill apart
Hill
to
Hole
Hole in a’ your coats
to
Hone
Honest and true
to
Hoodwinked
Hoofs of a swinish multitude
to
Hopeless anguish
Hopeless sons of clay
to
Hour
Hour of virtuous liberty
to
Howls along the sky
Hub of the solar system
to
Hungarian wight
Hunger
to
Ideas
Ideas
to
Illumine
Illusion given
to
Importune
Imposes an oath
to
Indubitable manifestation of the Divinity
Indued with sanctity of reason
to
Innocence and health
Innocency next thing to confession
to
Interpretations
Interpreter hardest to be understood
to
Israel
Issues at the last
to
John Barleycorn
John P. Robinson he
to
Joys
Joys flow from our own selves
to
Just
Just
to
Kin
Kind and gentle heart
to
Kings and republics
Kings come bow to it
to
Knew
Knew more
to
Knowledge
Knowledge
to
Ladies
Ladies
to
Land and sea
Land
to
Last
Last night
to
Law and the prophets
Law
to
Lead kindly Light
Lead to an enchanted land
to
Leave all in order
Leave to God God does
to
Lessons
Lest pleasureless ye die
to
Liberty’s tree
Liberty’s unclouded blaze
to
Life
Life distasteful
to
Life is but a span
Life
to
Life’s a flower I choose my own
Life’s means
to
Light from which they take
Light restore
to
Likeness of a kingly crown
Likewise
to
Lips are now forbid to speak
Lips drop gentle words
to
Little
Little
to
Lives a prayer
Lives no greater leader
to
Loiterers and malcontents
Loke who that is most vertuous
to
Look a gift horse in the mouth
Look through a milstone
to
Lore
Lorn
to
Love a bright particular star
Love
to
Love greater than his power
Love knoweth no laws
to
Love of your neighbour
Love thee dearly love thee still
to
Loveliest lassie
Loveliest
to
Lucifer
Lucifer son of the morning
to
Made a foe
Made light of it
to
Majesty
Majesty
to
Man a flower he dies
Man
to
Man does
Man
to
Man lay down his life for his friends
Man
to
Man perfect who understands for himself
Man
to
Man to mend God’s work
Man
to
Man-like is it to fall into sin
Manliness of grief
to
Marcival providence fashioned us
Marden
to
Masterdom and sway
Mastered whatever was not worth knowing
to
Meals
Mean and small
to
Meet again
Meets the ear
to
Memory
Memory thy lamp
to
Men
Men in the catalogue ye go for
to
Men propose
Men
to
Merit
Merit
to
Mien carries more invitation
Might and main
to
Mind
Mind
to
Minds
Minds led captive
to
Miserable comforters are ye all
Miseries
to
Modern
Modern instances
to
Mood
Moody madness
to
More and less than just
More you drink more you thirst
to
Mortals
Mortals share
to
Mount Abora
Mount to its summit round by round
to
Much an expedient as lighting
Much credit in that
to
Music and moonlight
Music
to
Mystery
Mystery
to
Names
Names that shall live unnumbered years
to
Nature abhors imperfect work
Nature and reason
to
Nature is but art unknown
Nature
to
Necessity
Necessity proper parent of an art
to
Never a song
Never loved sae blindly
to
Night
Night before Christmas
to
Night
Night
to
Noble and approved good masters
Noble to be good
to
North and south clasp hands
North
to
Nothing
Nothing is law that is not reason
to
Nutbrown ale
Nuther
to
Occur in the best regulated families
Occurs
to
Often
Often funny
to
On a lone barren isle
On ye brave
to
Operation
Opes the palace of eternity
to
Ormus and of Ind
Ornament
to
Overpowering knell
Over-refinement
to
Pain
Pain
to
Pangs and fears
Pangs of despised love
to
Parts
Parts
to
Past again
Past
to
Patron and the jail
Patron one who looks with unconcern
to
Peak and pine
Peaks of two eternities
to
Pent-up Utica
Penury and imprisonment
to
Perish
Perish with him the folly that seeks
to
Philosophers have judged
Philosophic mind
to
Pin a day’s a groat a year
Pins it with a star
to
Place
Place
to
Play
Play
to
Pleasure after pain
Pleasure of life is to
to
Poet be
Poet is made as well as born
to
Polished dart
Polished manners
to
Porcelain clay of humankind
Procupine
to
Powdered with stars
Power
to
Praise
Praise
to
Presence full of light
Presence of body
to
Prime
Prime conception of the joyous
to
Prodigal
Prodigal excess
to
Prose and poetry
Prose
to
Public amusements
Public man of light and leading
to
Purse
Purse is free
to
Questionings of sense
Qui desiderat pacem
to
Rage
Rage of the vulture
to
Rat
Rat in a hole
to
Reaped
Reaped
to
Recorded time
Recorders
to
Religion as healthy as life itself
Religion
to
Renowned Spenser
Rent is sorrow
to
Rest and be thankful
Rest nowhere
to
Rewards
Rewards
to
Rides in the whirlwind
Rider
to
Ring happy bells
Ring out the old ring in the new
to
Roar
Roar
to
Romantic
Rome
to
Roses and lilies and violets
Roses
to
Rueful conflict
Ruffian
to
Rustic life and poverty
Rustics
to
Said anything that was remembered
Said it
to
Sand an’ ginger when alive
Sand
to
Scabbard
Scabbards
to
Science
Science
to
Sea
Sea
to
Search men’s principles
Searches to the bottom
to
See a hand you cannot see
See with his half-shut eyes
to
Selling of pig in a poke
Selves
to
Serpent
Serpent
to
Shade
Shade
to
Shakespeare’s magic
Shaking
to
Shed no tear—O shed
Sheddeth man’s blood
to
Shock of corn
Shock of men
to
Shout and revelry
Shout
to
Sides
Sidelong looks of love
to
Silence accompanied
Silence envious tongues
to
Silver-white
Silver-white lady-smocks
to
Singer
Singers
to
Skies
Skies
to
Slain by arrows of the early frost
Slain
to
Sleep
Sleep will never lie where care lodges
to
Small
Small of all that human hearts endure
to
Smooth as monumental alabaster
Smoother than butter
to
Society among unequals
Society where none intrudes
to
Solitude
Solitude of his own originality
to
Song
Song jets forth so clear
to
Sorrow
Sorrow
to
Soul
Soul
to
Souls
Souls whose sudden visitations daze the world
to
Sow for him build for him
Sow thy seed in the morning
to
Speaks an infinite deal of nothing
Speaker
to
Spider’s touch how exquisitely fine
Spider-like we feel the tenderest touch
to
Spite
Spite the world
to
Spurn to-day
Spurned but spurned in vain
to
Standing
Standing with reluctant feet
to
Stars
Stars
to
Statue-like repose
Stature
to
Sterile promontory
Stern and distant shore
to
Stone
Stone
to
Straight down the crooked lane
Straight
to
Streets
Streets
to
Strong
Strong drink is raging
to
Subject not a slave
Subject of all verse
to
Suit lightly won
Suit of sables
to
Sun
Sun in the firmament
to
Sunset and evening star
Sunset’s turquoise marge
to
Sway
Sway
to
Sweet bells jangled out of tune
Sweet
to
Swift-winged arrows of light
Swim before my sight
to
Take all the gifts
Take I give it willingly
to
Tall ancestral trees
Tall men sun-crowned
to
Team of little atomies
Team of sparrows
to
Temper
Temper
to
Testy pleasant fellow
Testyment
to
Thievery
Thieves
to
Things above
Things
to
Think and act
Think there is nothing but immortality
to
Thought
Thought and joy
to
Thoughts
Thoughts of a child
to
Threescore
Three-tailed Bashaw
to
Tide and wind stay no man
Tide
to
Time
Time
to
Times
Times were not hard and money scarce
to
Toil and care
Toil
to
Tongue an unruly member
Tongue
to
Touch
Touch
to
Transcribed
Transfigures its golden hair
to
Trees are brown
Trees
to
Trouble
Trouble
to
Trust a little
Trust in money
to
Truth
Truth
to
Turph
Turquoise marge
to
Tyrants
Tyrants
to
Undone
Undone widow
to
University of these days
Unjust peace before a just war
to
Untimely death
Unto dying eyes
to
Utter
Utterance
to
Vantage-ground of truth
Vapour at the best
to
Verse
Verse
to
Village bells
Village cock
to
Virtue
Virtue she finds too painful
to
Voice and utterance
Voice of all the gods
to
Wails so in winter
Wailing cry
to
Wanders heaven-directed
Wandered by the brook-side
to
Wars and rumours of wars
Wars
to
Watchful and wary
Watching thee from hour to hour
to
Waving here
Wax
to
Weak against the strong
Weak
to
Web from their own entrails spin
Web
to
Well
Well
to
What a fall was there
What is her history
to
Whence and what art thou
Whence is thy learning
to
White
White and still
to
Wictim of connubiality
Wide
to
Will
Will
to
Winds and waters keep a hush
Winds of doctrine were let loose
to
Wingèd chalice of the soul
Wingèd spirits
to
Wise
Wise do never live long
to
Wit
Wit invites you
to
Woe
Woe
to
Woman
Woman therefore may be won
to
Woo her
Woo the voices
to
Words all ears took captive
Words are but empty thanks
to
Work a little
Work of God
to
World
World had wanted many an idle song
to
World knows me in my book
World she followed him
to
World’s altar-stairs
World’s shore
to
Would and we would not
Would it were bedtime
to
Write a verse or two
Write about it goddess
to
Year
Year
to
Yielded
Yielded with coy submission
to
Youth and I lived in ’t together
Youth
to
Zuyder Zee
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