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

The present well, and ev'n the past enjoy.

Pope: Imitation of Martial.

All the beauty of the world, 't is but skin deep.[262:4]

Orthodoxe Paradoxes. (Third edition, 1650.) The Triumph of Assurance, p. 41.

They spare the rod, and spoyle the child.[262:5]

Mysteries and Revelations, p. 5. (1649.)

[262:4] Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours that are but skin-deep.—Henry: Commentaries. Genesis iii.