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

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Beauty stands

In the admiration only of weak minds

Led captive.

Paradise Regained. Book ii. Line 220.

Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.

Paradise Regained. Book ii. Line 228.

Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise.

Paradise Regained. Book iii. Line 56.

Elephants endors'd with towers.

Paradise Regained. Book iii. Line 329.