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

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Might never reach me more.

The Task. Book ii. The Timepiece. Line 1.

Mountains interposed

Make enemies of nations who had else,

Like kindred drops, been mingled into one.

The Task. Book ii. The Timepiece. Line 17.

I would not have a slave to till my ground,

To carry me, to fan me while I sleep

And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth

That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.