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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:6766
AUTHOR:Alfred Tennyson Tennyson (1809–1892)
QUOTATION:Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them.
.    .    .    .    .
Into the jaws of death, 1 
Into the mouth of hell
  Rode the six hundred.
ATTRIBUTION:The Charge of the Light Brigade. Stanza 3.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
Note 1.
Jaws of death.—Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, act iii. sc. 4. Du Bartas: Weekes and Workes, day i. part 4. [back]
 

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