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

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Locksley Hall. Line 168.

I, the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

Locksley Hall. Line 178.

Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change.

Locksley Hall. Line 182.

Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.

Locksley Hall. Line 184.

I waited for the train at Coventry;

I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge,

To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped