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

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

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A pamper’d menial drove me from the door, To seek a shelter in an humbler shed. The Rev. T. Moss.—Gent. Mag. Vol. LXX. Page 41.	1
Warn’d by the languor of life’s evening ray, At length have housed me in an humble shed. Dr. Young.—Night IX. Line 11.	2
Where the rude Carinthian boor Against the houseless stranger shuts the door. Goldsmith.—The Traveller, Line 3.	3
Ye find no rude inhospitable swain, Who drives the stranger from his door away. Wheelwright.—Pindar, XI. Olymp. Ode, Line 23.	4
No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate. Goldsmith.—The Deserted Village, Line 105.	5
Last the sire and his three sons, With their four wives; and God made fast the door. Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book XI.	6