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

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Of human offspring.

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 750.

Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve.

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 800.

Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear

Touch'd lightly; for no falsehood can endure

Touch of celestial temper.

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 810.

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown,

The lowest of your throng.