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

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A Grammarian's Funeral.

Lofty designs must close in like effects.

A Grammarian's Funeral.

I hear you reproach, "But delay was best,

For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do

As well, I reply, to serve for a test

As a virtue golden through and through,

Sufficient to vindicate itself

And prove its worth at a moment's view!

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