Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Arcades. Line 88.

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O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted,

Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.

Ode on the Death of a fair Infant, dying of a Cough.

Such as may make thee search the coffers round.

At a Vacation Exercise. Line 31.

No war or battle's sound

Was heard the world around.

Hymn on Christ's Nativity. Line 53.