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

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A sunbeam in a winter's day,

Is all the proud and mighty have

Between the cradle and the grave.

Grongar Hill. Line 88.

Ever charming, ever new,

When will the landscape tire the view?

Grongar Hill. Line 102.

Disparting towers

Trembling all precipitate down dash'd,

Rattling around, loud thundering to the moon.