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

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And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.

First Week, First Day.

Night's black mantle covers all alike.[781:1]

First Week, First Day.

Hot and cold, and moist and dry.[781:2]

First Week, Second Day.

Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes),

Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes;

Who loving novels, full of affectation,

Receive the manners of each other nation.[781:3]