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

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At every fall smoothing the raven down

Of darkness till it smil'd!

Comus. Line 249.

Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul

And lap it in Elysium.

Comus. Line 256.

Such sober certainty of waking bliss.

Comus. Line 263.

I took it for a faery vision

Of some gay creatures of the element,