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

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To us is adverse.

Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 75.

When the scourge

Inexorable and the torturing hour

Call us to penance.

Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 90.

Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.

Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 105.

But all was false and hollow; though his tongue

Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear