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

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The never-ending flight

Of future days.

Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 221.

Our torments also may in length of time

Become our elements.

Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 274.

With grave

Aspect he rose, and in his rising seem'd

A pillar of state; deep on his front engraven

Deliberation sat, and public care;