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

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And but herself admits no parallel.—Massinger: Duke of Milan, act iv. sc. 3.

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JAMES BRAMSTON.  —— -1744.

What 's not devoured by Time's devouring hand?

Where 's Troy, and where 's the Maypole in the Strand?

Art of Politics.

But Titus said, with his uncommon sense,

When the Exclusion Bill was in suspense:

"I hear a lion in the lobby roar;

Say, Mr. Speaker, shall we shut the door