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

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That trembles in the breast.

What is Prayer?

Prayer is the burden of a sigh,

The falling of a tear,

The upward glancing of an eye

When none but God is near.

What is Prayer?

Footnotes

[496:1] Θνήσκειν μὴ λέγε τοὺς ἀγαθούς (Say not that the good die).—Callimachus: Epigram x.

[496:2] See Barbauld, page [433].