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Grocott & Ward, comps.  Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed.  189-?.
 
Nightingale
 
Sweet bird, that shun’st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy.
        Milton.—Il Penseroso. Rogers.—Human Life.
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I prefer the nightingale herself.
        Philip of Macedon.—Article on Imitations, Disraeli’s Cur. of Lit. Vol. I. Page 69.
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