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

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To where yon taper cheers the vale

With hospitable ray.

The Hermit. Chap. viii. Stanza 1.

Taught by that Power that pities me,

I learn to pity them.[402:1]

The Hermit. Chap. viii. Stanza 6.

Man wants but little here below,

Nor wants that little long.[402:2]

The Hermit. Chap. viii. Stanza 8.

And what is friendship but a name,