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

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Or wallow naked in December snow

By thinking on fantastic summer's heat?

O, no! the apprehension of the good

Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.

King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 3.

The tongues of dying men

Enforce attention like deep harmony.

King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1.

The setting sun, and music at the close,

As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last,