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

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And all that 's best of dark and bright

Meet in her aspect and her eyes;

Thus mellow'd to that tender light

Which Heaven to gaudy day denies.[551:2]

Hebrew Melodies. She walks in Beauty.

The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,

And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold.

The Destruction of Sennacherib.

It is the hour when from the boughs

The nightingale's high note is heard;