Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
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=Gain.= Remote from cities liv'd a swain, Unvex'd with all the cares of gain. 781 GAY: _Fables,_ Pt. i., _The Shepherd and the Philosopher._ =Gale.= So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er. 782 MRS. BARBAULD: _Death of the Virtuous._ Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale. 783 BURNS: _The Cotter's Saturday Night._ =Gambling.= Play not for gain, but sport. Who plays for more Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart; Perhaps his wife's too, and whom she hath bore. 784 HERBERT: _Temple, Church Porch,_ St. 33. |
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