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

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The Severn to the sea;

And Wickliffe's dust shall spread abroad

Wide as the waters be.'"

Daniel Webster: Address before the Sons of New Hampshire, 1849.

These lines are similarly quoted by the Rev. John Cumming in the "Voices of the Dead."

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The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing

Made of a quill from an angel's wing.

Henry Constable: Sonnet.

Whose noble praise