Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
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Make instruments to plague us.
816 SHAKS.: _King Lear,_ Act v., Sc. 3. Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive. 817 EMERSON: _Give All to Love._ =Gold.= Gold; worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murther in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. 818 SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act v., Sc. 1. O cursed lust of gold! when for thy sake The fool throws up his interest in both worlds; First starved in this, then damn'd in that to come. 819 BLAIR: _The Grave,_ Line 347. So dear a life your arms enfold, Whose crying is a cry for gold. 820 TENNYSON: _The Daisy,_ St. 24. |
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