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

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The dews of the evening most carefully shun,—

Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.

Advice to a Lady in Autumn.

The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.

Character of Pulteney.

He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.[353:3]

Character of Bolingbroke.

Footnotes

[352:3] W. Lowndes, Secretary of the Treasury in the reigns of King William, Queen Anne, and King George the Third.

[353:1] Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces."—Diogenes Laertius: Xenocrates, book iv. sect. 2.