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Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
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=Fawning.=

And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee,
Where thrift may follow fawning.
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SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.


=Fear.=

Why, what should be the fear?
I do not set my life at a pin's fee;
And, for my soul, what can it do to that,
Being a thing immortal as itself?
691
SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 4.

Of all base passions fear is most accurs'd.
692
SHAKS.: _1 Henry VI.,_ Act v., Sc. 2.

Desponding fear, of feeble fancies full,
Weak and unmanly, loosens ev'ry power.
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THOMSON: _Seasons, Spring,_ Line 286.

The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip
To hand the wretch in order;
But where ye feel your honor grip,
Let that aye be your border.
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