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

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PAUL MOON JAMES.  1780-1854.

The scene was more beautiful far to the eye

Than if day in its pride had arrayed it.

The Beacon.

And o'er them the lighthouse looked lovely as hope,—

That star of life's tremulous ocean.

The Beacon.

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CHARLES MINER.  1780-1865.

When I see a merchant over-polite to his customers, begging them to taste a little brandy and throwing half his goods on the counter,—thinks I, that man has an axe to grind.