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

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A worm is in the bud of youth,

And at the root of age.

Stanzas subjoined to a Bill of Mortality.

Toll for the brave!—

The brave that are no more!

All sunk beneath the wave,

Fast by their native shore!

On the Loss of the Royal George.

There is a bird who by his coat,

And by the hoarseness of his note,