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

by Unknown

Suckling: Ballad upon a Wedding.

[203:1] See Bacon, page [168].

[203:2] Nil tam difficilest quin quærendo investigari possiet (Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking).—Terence: Heautontimoroumenos, iv. 2, 8.

[203:3] Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.—Milton: Paradise Lost, book iv. line 256.

---

FRANCIS QUARLES.  1592-1644.

Death aims with fouler spite

At fairer marks.[203:4]

Divine Poems (ed. 1669).

Sweet Phosphor, bring the day