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

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A narrow compass! and yet there

Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair;

Give me but what this riband bound,

Take all the rest the sun goes round.

On a Girdle.

For all we know

Of what the blessed do above

Is, that they sing, and that they love.

While I listen to thy Voice.

Poets that lasting marble seek