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

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Or gave his father grief but when he died.

Epitaph on the Hon. S. Harcourt.

The saint sustain'd it, but the woman died.

Epitaph on Mrs. Corbet.

Of manners gentle, of affections mild;

In wit a man, simplicity a child.[335:3]

Epitaph on Gay.

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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate,

And greatly falling with a falling state.