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

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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year![420:2]

The Task. Book iv. The Winter Evening. Line 120.

With spots quadrangular of diamond form,

Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife,

And spades, the emblems of untimely graves.

The Task. Book iv. The Winter Evening. Line 217.

In indolent vacuity of thought.

The Task. Book iv. The Winter Evening. Line 297.

It seems the part of wisdom.

The Task. Book iv. The Winter Evening. Line 336.