 | Huber Gray Buehler - 1900 - 328 pagine
...through Italy and France, preaching the duty of rescuing the Holy Sepulcher from the Mohammedans. 6. A little fire is quickly trodden out; Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench. 7. Now morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with Orient pearl. ' 8.... | |
 | 1901 - 100 pagine
...a swindler are near neighbours. Ask my companion if I be a thief. 253. A stitch in time sayes nine. A little fire is quickly trodden out which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench. Resist the first tteginuings. Destroy the lion when he is but a whelp. 254. «•£<*• I (y^Every... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 pagine
...hoarding went to hell ? ibid. Warwick, peace, Proud setter up and puller down of kiugs ! Act Hi. Sc. 3. A little fire is quickly trodden out ; Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench. Act ic. Sc. & Suspicion always hannts the guilty mind ; The thief doth fear each bush an officer. Act... | |
 | Oscar Israel Woodley, Myra Soper Woodley, George Rice Carpenter - 1902 - 186 pagine
...following select the adverbs, state the class to which each belongs, and tell how it is used : — 1. A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench. 2. He that is down can fall no lower. 3. Books cannot always please, however good ; Minds are not ever... | |
 | Hialmer Day Gould, Edward Louis Hessenmueller - 1904 - 920 pagine
...And happy always was it for that son Whose father, for his hoarding, went to hell.— Act II, Sc. 2. A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench. — Act IV, Sc. 8. Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind: The thief doth fear each bush an officer.... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - 1904 - 930 pagine
...ever to decay ; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed. Yew-Trees. w. WORDSWORTH. TRIFLE. A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench. King Henry VI, , Pt. III. Act iv. Sc. 8. SHAKESPEARE. Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hair,... | |
 | 1905 - 818 pagine
...in its infancy. Remember the warning you remarked yesterday was given once by a poetry man who said, 'A little fire is quickly trodden out; which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench,' or something like that. It would break my heart to see you become a 'squaw man.' " The Lieutenant made... | |
 | 1906 - 810 pagine
...that with haste will make a mighty fire Begin it with weak straws, SHAKESPEARE, Julius Csesar, i, 3 A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench, SHAKESPEARE, King Henry VI, Pan III, iv, 8 Ye blew the fire that burns ye, SHAKESPEARE, King Henry VIII, v, 3 [2]... | |
 | Frances Asa Charles - 1906 - 332 pagine
...while his guest concluded, in an easy way which Laura also possessed, as if reading it off a paper, •"A little fire is quickly trodden out ; Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench.' " Jeddy went around to the other side of the house, where Holly was making apple jelly in the kitchen.... | |
 | Chartered Insurance Institute - 1906 - 458 pagine
...— and experience generally is a costly and bitter teacher — of the truth of the quotation that " A little fire is quickly trodden out, which, being suffered, rivers cannot gwnch." This concerns all — fire is an element which distinguishes not between the humble home of... | |
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A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which being suffered, rivers cannot quench. 
