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

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So bending tries to veil the matchless boast,

The mingled beauties of exulting Greece.

The Seasons. Summer. Line 1346.

Who stemm'd the torrent of a downward age.

The Seasons. Summer. Line 1516.

Autumn nodding o'er the yellow plain.

The Seasons. Autumn. Line 2.

Loveliness

Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,

But is when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.[356:1]