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

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Of Nature.

To the same Flower.

Oft on the dappled turf at ease

I sit, and play with similes,

Loose type of things through all degrees.

To the same Flower.

Sweet Mercy! to the gates of heaven

This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven;

The rueful conflict, the heart riven

With vain endeavour,