Rent. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

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Fit dwelling for the feather’d throng, Who pay their quit-rents with a song. Green.—The Wish.	1
The site was neither granted him nor given; ’Twas nature’s, and the ground-rent due to Heaven. Dr. Walter Harte.—Eulogius.	2
Virgil loved rural ease, and, far from harm, Mæcenas fix’d him in a neat snug farm, Where he might, free from trouble, pass his days In his own way, and pay his rent in praise. Churchill.—Independence.	3
It is the due paying of God’s quit-rents which he expecteth; I mean the realizing of our gratitude unto him for his many mercies, in leading the remainder of our lives according to his will and his word. Fuller.—Mixt Contemplations, No. 32.	4
His quit-rent ode, his peppercorn of praise. Cowper.—Table Talk, Line 111.	5