“He wedded a wife of richest dower,
Who lived for fashion, as he for power.
Yet oft, in his marble hearth's bright glow,
He watched a picture come and go:
And sweet Maud Muller's hazel eyes
Looked out in their innocent surprise.”
Maud Muller (1856)
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Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
Context: It was an amazing predicament. He was, in one sense, the richest man that ever lived — and yet was he worth anything at all? If his secret should transpire there was no telling to what measures the Government might resort in order to prevent a panic, in gold as well as in jewels. They might take over the claim immediately and institute a monopoly.

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His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.”
Wood-notes
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Orpheus' song, Book III, line 178
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)

“For hit ys oft seyde by hem that yet lyues
He must nedys go that the deuell dryues.”
The Assembly of Gods; or, The Accord of Reason and Sensuality, line 20.
This poem was long attributed to Lydgate, but is now thought to have been written after his death, during the second half of the 15th century. http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/asint.htm#f10
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