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

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Footnotes

[389:4] See Pope, page [320].

[389:5]

Var.  By hands unseen the knell is rung;

By fairy forms their dirge is sung.

[390:1]

Sweetest melodies

Are those that are by distance made more sweet.

Wordsworth: Personal Talk, stanza 2.

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