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

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And o'er unhabitable downs

Place elephants for want of towns.[289:3]

Poetry, a Rhapsody.

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Where Young must torture his invention

To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

Poetry, a Rhapsody.

Hobbes clearly proves that every creature

Lives in a state of war by nature.

Poetry, a Rhapsody.