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

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Stalk'd off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost,

Not to return; or if it did, in visits

Like those of angels, short and far between.[355:1]

The Grave. Part ii. Line 586.

Footnotes

[354:2] See Dryden, page [277].

[355:1] See Norris, page [281].

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JAMES THOMSON.  1700-1748.

Come, gentle Spring! ethereal Mildness! come.