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

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Sabean odours from the spicy shore

Of Araby the Blest.

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 162.

And on the Tree of Life,

The middle tree and highest there that grew,

Sat like a cormorant.

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 194.

A heaven on earth.

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 208.

Flowers worthy of paradise.