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

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Noosing with care a bursting purse,

Baited with many a deadly curse?

Ode on Mrs. Oswald.

To make a happy fireside clime

To weans and wife,—

That 's the true pathos and sublime

Of human life.

Epistle to Dr. Blacklock.

If there 's a hole in a' your coats,

I rede ye tent it;