John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron. (1788–1824) (continued) |
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| The best of prophets of the future is the past. |
| Letter, Jan. 28, 1821. |
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| What say you to such a supper with such a woman? 1 |
| Note to a Letter on Bowles’s Strictures. |
| William Knox. (1789–1825) |
| 5820 |
| Oh why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a fast-flitting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passes from life to his rest in the grave. 2 |
| Mortality. 3 |
| Alfred Bunn. (1790–1860) |
| 5821 |
| I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side. |
| Song. |
| 5822 |
| The light of other days 4 is faded, And all their glories past. |
| Song. |
| 5823 |
| The heart bowed down by weight of woe To weakest hope will cling. |
| Song. |
| Fitz-Greene Halleck. (1790–1867) |
| 5824 |
| Strike—for your altars and your fires! Strike—for the green graves of your sires! God, and your native land! |
| Marco Bozzaris. |
| Note 1. See Lady Montagu, Quotation 2. [back] |
| Note 2. Abraham Lincoln was very fond of repeating these lines. [back] |
| Note 3. From Knox’s “Songs of Israel,” 1824. [back] |
| Note 4. See Moore, Quotation 50. [back] |