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

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But Shadwell never deviates into sense.

Mac Flecknoe. Line 20.

Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care

To grant, before we can conclude the prayer:

Preventing angels met it half the way,

And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.[269:5]

Britannia Rediviva. Line 1.

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And torture one poor word ten thousand ways.

Britannia Rediviva. Line 208.