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

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The Task. Book ii. The Timepiece. Line 285.

Transforms old print

To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes

Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.

The Task. Book ii. The Timepiece. Line 363.

Reading what they never wrote,

Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work,

And with a well-bred whisper close the scene.

The Task. Book ii. The Timepiece. Line 411.

Whoe'er was edified, themselves were not.