John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Sir Walter Scott. (1771–1832) (continued) |
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| 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 ne’er 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 |
| Woman’s faith and woman’s 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. |
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| But with the morning cool reflection came. 3 |
| Chronicles of the Canongate. Chap. iv. |
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| What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier? 4 |
| Woodstock. Chap. xxxvii. |
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| 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. |
| Note 1. Fearful concatenation of circumstances.—Daniel Webster: Argument on the Murder of Captain White, 1830. Fortuitous combination of circumstances.—Charles Dickens: Our Mutual Friend, vol. ii. chap. vii. (American edition). [back] |
| Note 2. See Spenser, Quotation 8. [back] |
| Note 3. See Rowe, Quotation 2. [back] |
| Note 4. Le premier qui fut roi, fut un soldat heureux; Qui sert bien son pays, n’a pas besoin d’aïeux (The first who was king was a successful soldier. He who serves well his country has no need of ancestors).—Francis M. Voltaire: Merope, act i. sc. 3. [back] |