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

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Society became my glittering bride,

And airy hopes my children.

The Excursion. Book iii.

And the most difficult of tasks to keep

Heights which the soul is competent to gain.

The Excursion. Book iv.

There is a luxury in self-dispraise;

And inward self-disparagement affords

To meditative spleen a grateful feast.

The Excursion. Book iv.