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Familiar Quotations

Volume 6 / Part 1 — King Henry VI. Part i. Act i, Sc. 1.

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Hung be the heavens with black

MILTON.

Sonnet xi. To Cromwell.

Peace hath her victories No less renowned than war.

GEORGE HERBERT.

The Elixir.

A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as for thy laws. Makes that and the action fine.

SAMUEL BUTLER

Hudibras. P. ii. C. i. Line 843.

Love is a boy by poets styled; Then spare the rod and spoil the child.

JAMES THOMSON.

Seasons. Winter, Line 625.

The kiss snatched hasty from the sidelong maid.

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Tintern Abbey.

Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her.

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