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• Now cheaply bought for thrice their weight in gold.
  -- John Ferriar (1764-1815) -- Illustrations of Sterne, Bibliomania, Line 65...
• How pure the joy, when first my hands unfold The small, rare volume, black with tarnished gold!
  -- John Ferriar (1764-1815) -- Illustrations of Sterne, Bibliomania, Line 137...
• Torn from their destined page (unworthy meed Of knightly counsel and heroic deed).
  -- John Ferriar (1764-1815) -- Illustrations of Sterne, Bibliomania, Line 121...
• T is chastity, my brother, chastity: She that has that is clad in complete steel.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Comus, Line 420...
• Ran on embattled armies clad in iron, And, weaponless himself, Made arms ridiculous.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Samson Agonistes, Line 129...
• Time will run back and fetch the age of gold.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Hymn on Christ's Nativity, Line 135...
• For gold in phisike is a cordial; Therefore he loved gold in special.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line 445...
• A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars,--as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd with stars.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book vii, Line 577...
• High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind
  Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit rais'd To that bad eminence....