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

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To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.

Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 267.

Socrates . . . .

Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd

Wisest of men.

Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 274.

Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.

Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 327.

As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore.

Or if I would delight my private hours