Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—F

Felix

a monk who listens to the singing of a milk-white bird for a thousand years, which seemed to him “but a single hour,” so enchanted was he by the song. (Longfellow: The Golden Legend.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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