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Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
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The moon of Mahomet
Arose, and it shall set;
While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon,
The cross leads generations on.
442
SHELLEY: _Hellas,_ Line 221.


=Crowd.=

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife
Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray.
443
GRAY: _Elegy,_ St. 19.


=Crown.=

Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown,
And put a barren sceptre in my gripe.
444
SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act iii., Sc. 1.

What seem'd his head
The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Satan was now at hand.
445
MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ii., Line 666.


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