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 702.

Domestic happiness, thou only bliss

Of Paradise that has survived the fall!

The Task. Book iii. The Garden. Line 41.

Great contest follows, and much learned dust.

The Task. Book iii. The Garden. Line 161.

From reveries so airy, from the toil

Of dropping buckets into empty wells,

And growing old in drawing nothing up.[419:3]

The Task. Book iii. The Garden. Line 188.