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

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Meet me by Moonlight.

'T were vain to tell thee all I feel,

Or say for thee I 'd die.

'T were vain to tell.

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SIR HENRY TAYLOR.  1800-18—.

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

Philip Van Artevelde. Part i. Act i. Sc. 5.

An unreflected light did never yet

Dazzle the vision feminine.