John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| 5175 | The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances. 1 |
Answer to the Author of Waverley to the Letter of Captain Clutterbuck. The Monastery. |
5176 | Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries! |
The Monastery. Chap. xii. |
5177 | And better had they neer been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. |
The Monastery. Chap. xii. |
5178 | Ah, County Guy, the hour is nigh, The sun has left the lea. The orange flower perfumes the bower, The breeze is on the sea. |
Quentin Durward. Chap. iv. |
5179 | Widowed wife and wedded maid. |
The Betrothed. Chap. xv. |
5180 | Womans faith and womans trust, Write the characters in dust. |
The Betrothed. Chap. xx. |
5181 | I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd. 2 |
The Betrothed. Chap. xxviii. |
5182 | But with the morning cool reflection came. 3 |
Chronicles of the Canongate. Chap. iv. |
5183 | What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier? 4 |
Woodstock. Chap. xxxvii. |
5184 | The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out. |
The Talisman. Introduction. |
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