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

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And had an early doom.

The Devil's Progress.

Like ships, that sailed for sunny isles,

But never came to shore.

The Devil's Progress.

A Hebrew knelt in the dying light,

His eye was dim and cold,

The hairs on his brow were silver-white,

And his blood was thin and old.

The Devil's Progress.