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

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Alexander's Feast. Line 15.

With ravish'd ears

The monarch hears;

Assumes the god,

Affects to nod,

And seems to shake the spheres.

Alexander's Feast. Line 37.

Bacchus, ever fair and ever young.

Alexander's Feast. Line 54.

Rich the treasure,