When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war.
Nat Lee: Play of Alexander the Great, 1692.
Westward the course of empire takes its way.—Bishop Berkeley.
No pent-up Utica contracts your powers,
But the whole boundless continent is yours.
J. M. Sewall: Epilogue to Cato, 1778.
Out of sight, out of mind.
Originally,
Out of minde as soon as out of sight.—Lord Brooke.
Through thick and thin.—Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel.