| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| Miscellaneous. (continued) |
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| Behold how brightly breaks the morning! Though bleak our lot, our hearts are warm. |
| James Kenney (1780–1849): Behold how brightly breaks. |
| 8309 |
| Unthinking, idle, wild, and young, I laugh’d and danc’d and talk’d and sung. |
| Princess Amelia (1783–1810). |
| 8310 |
| A sound so fine, there ’s nothing lives ’Twixt it and silence. |
| James Sheridan Knowles (1784–1862) Virginius, Act v. Sc. 2. |
| 8311 |
| We have met the enemy, and they are ours. |
| Oliver H. Perry (1785–1820): Letter to General Harrison (dated “United States Brig Niagara. Off the Western Sisters. Sept. 10, 1813, 4 P. M.”). |
| 8312 |
| Not she with trait’rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied him with unholy tongue; She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave, Last at his cross and earliest at his grave. |
| Eaton S. Barrett (1785–1820): Woman, Part i. (ed. 1822). |
| 8313 |
| They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy. |
| William L. Marcy (1786–1857): Speech in the United States Senate, January, 1832. |
| 8314 |
| Say to the seceded States, “Wayward sisters, depart in peace.” |
| Winfield Scott (1786–1861): Letter to W. H. Seward, March 3, 1861. |
| 8315 |
| Rock’d in the cradle of the deep, I lay me down in peace to sleep. |
| Emma Willard (1787–1870): The Cradle of the Deep. |
| 8316 |
| Right as a trivet. |
| R. H. Barham (1788–1845): The Ingoldsby Legends. Auto-da-fe. |
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