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

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And oh if there be an Elysium on earth,

It is this, it is this!

Lalla Rookh. The Light of the Harem.

Humility, that low, sweet root

From which all heavenly virtues shoot.

The Loves of the Angels. The Third Angel's Story.

Footnotes

[518:1] See Waller, page [220].

[519:1] This goin ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.—Lowell: The Biglow Papers. First Series, No. 11.

[521:1] This image was suggested by the following thought, which occurs somewhere in Sir William Jones's Works: "The moon looks upon many night-flowers; the night-flower sees but one moon."