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

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On a Distant Prospect of Eton College. Stanza 6.

And moody madness laughing wild

Amid severest woe.

On a Distant Prospect of Eton College. Stanza 8.

To each his suff'rings; all are men,

Condemn'd alike to groan,—

The tender for another's pain,

Th' unfeeling for his own.

Yet ah! why should they know their fate,

Since sorrow never comes too late,