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

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O death! where is thy sting?

The Dying Christian to his Soul.

What beckoning ghost along the moonlight shade

Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?[335:1]

To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. Line 1.

Is there no bright reversion in the sky

For those who greatly think, or bravely die?

To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. Line 9.

The glorious fault of angels and of gods.

To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. Line 14.