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

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There 's something in a flying horse,

There 's something in a huge balloon.

Peter Bell. Prologue. Stanza 1.

The common growth of Mother Earth

Suffices me,—her tears, her mirth,

Her humblest mirth and tears.

Peter Bell. Prologue. Stanza 27.

Full twenty times was Peter feared,

For once that Peter was respected.

Peter Bell. Part i. Stanza 3.