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

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He shall not blind his soul with clay.

The Princess. Part vii. Line 308.

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Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null.

Maud. Part i. ii.

That jewell'd mass of millinery,

That oil'd and curl'd Assyrian Bull.

Maud. Part i. vi. Stanza 6.

Gorgonized me from head to foot,

With a stony British stare.