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

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Syene, and where the shadow both way falls,

Meroe, Nilotic isle.

Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 70.

Dusk faces with white silken turbans wreath'd.

Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 76.

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The childhood shows the man,

As morning shows the day.[241:1]

Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 220.

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts