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

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Lamia. Part ii.

There was an awful rainbow once in heaven:

We know her woof, her texture; she is given

In the dull catalogue of common things.

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

Lamia. Part ii.

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Music's golden tongue

Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.

The Eve of St. Agnes. Stanza 3.