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

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Beautiful as sweet,

And young as beautiful, and soft as young,

And gay as soft, and innocent as gay!

Night Thoughts. Night iii. Line 81.

Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay;

And if in death still lovely, lovelier there;

Far lovelier! pity swells the tide of love.[308:2]

Night Thoughts. Night iii. Line 104.

Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but himself

That hideous sight,—a naked human heart.