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

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A summer's day; and with the setting sun

Dropp'd from the Zenith like a falling star.

Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 742.

Fairy elves,

Whose midnight revels by a forest side

Or fountain some belated peasant sees,

Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon

Sits arbitress.

Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 781.

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