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单词 the course of true love never did run smooth
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the course (also path) of true love never did run smooth
P1. Proverb. the course (also path) of true love never did run smooth and variants. Also in extended use.In later use chiefly echoing or alluding to quot. 1600.
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1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream i. i. l.134 For aught that I could euer reade,..The course of true loue neuer did runne smoothe. View more context for this quotation
1756 London Mag. June 284/2 But, alas! ‘the course of true love never yet run smooth’: The ill-judged ambition of a parent induced the father..to refuse her hand to the only man in the world with whom she could live happily.
1830 Dramatic Mag. Sept. 246 As our great bard..has asserted, ‘that the path of true love never does run smooth’, so it was with these two lovers.
1895 W. L. Pickard Under War Flags of 1861 xlvi. 351 I had hoped that our love would give the falsehood to the old saw: ‘true love never runs smoothly’. But it seems that ours has run through cyclones and billows.
1927 Boys' Life Feb. 12/3 I've heard some of the terrible things that have happened to guys in love..and about the path of true love not running smooth.
1990 Independent (Nexis) 13 Apr. 20 The course of true love never did run smooth. From time to time..the Prime Minister found the president infuriatingly careless of British sensibilities.
2012 MailOnline (Nexis) 2 Sept. Most new couples expect obstacles only during courtship (despite being taught that 'the course of true love never did run smooth').
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