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

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[577:1] See Chapman, page [37].

Among the many things he has requested of me to-night, this is the principal,—that on his gravestone shall be this inscription.—Richard Monckton Milnes: Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of John Keats. Letter to Severn, vol. ii. p. 91.

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THOMAS NOON TALFOURD.  1795-1854.

So his life has flowed

From its mysterious urn a sacred stream,

In whose calm depth the beautiful and pure

Alone are mirrored; which, though shapes of ill

May hover round its surface, glides in light,