John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Robert Pollok. (1799–1827) (continued) |
| 6115 |
| He laid his hand upon “the Ocean’s mane,” 1 And played familiar with his hoary locks. |
| The Course of Time. Book iv. Line 689. |
| 6116 |
| ’T was Slander filled her mouth with lying words, Slander, the foulest whelp of Sin. |
| The Course of Time. Book iv. Line 725. |
| 6117 |
| He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven To serve the Devil in. |
| The Course of Time. Book viii. Line 616. |
| 6118 |
| With one hand he put A penny in the urn of poverty, And with the other took a shilling out. |
| The Course of Time. Book viii. Line 632. |
| Colonel Blacker. |
| 6119 |
| Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry! 2 |
| Oliver’s Advice. 1834. |
| Rufus Choate. (1799–1859) |
| 6120 |
| There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; 3 there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed. |
| Speech before the New England Society, Dec. 22, 1843. |
| Note 1. See Byron, page 548. [back] |
| Note 2. There is a well-authenticated anecdote of Cromwell. On a certain occasion, when his troops were about to cross a river to attack the enemy, he concluded an address, with these words: “Put your trust in God; but mind to keep your powder dry!”—Hayes: Ballads of Ireland, vol. 1, p. 191. [back] |
| Note 3. The Americans equally detest the pageantry of a king and the supercilious hypocrisy of a bishop.—Junius: Letter xxxv. Dec. 19, 1769. Compare the anonymous poem “The Puritans’ Mistake,” published by Oliver Ditson in 1844:— “Oh, we are weary pilgrims; to this wilderness we bring A Church without a bishop, a State without a King.” It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.—George Bancroft: History of the United States, vol. iii, chap. vi. [back] |