John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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Miscellaneous. (continued)
8308 Behold how brightly breaks the morning! Though bleak our lot, our hearts are warm.
James Kenney (17801849): Behold how brightly breaks.
8309 Unthinking, idle, wild, and young, I laughd and dancd and talkd and sung.
Princess Amelia (17831810).
8310 A sound so fine, there s nothing lives Twixt it and silence.
James Sheridan Knowles (17841862) Virginius, Act v. Sc. 2.
8311 We have met the enemy, and they are ours.
Oliver H. Perry (17851820): Letter to General Harrison (dated United States Brig Niagara. Off the Western Sisters. Sept. 10, 1813, 4 P. M.).
8312 Not she with traitrous 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 (17851820): 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 (17861857): Speech in the United States Senate, January, 1832.
8314 Say to the seceded States, Wayward sisters, depart in peace.
Winfield Scott (17861861): Letter to W. H. Seward, March 3, 1861.
8315 Rockd in the cradle of the deep, I lay me down in peace to sleep.
Emma Willard (17871870): The Cradle of the Deep.
8316 Right as a trivet.
R. H. Barham (17881845): The Ingoldsby Legends. Auto-da-fe.