John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Miscellaneous. (continued) |
| 8328 |
| I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told. |
| G. P. R. James (1801–1860): The Monks of Old. |
| 8329 |
| A place in thy memory, dearest, Is all that I claim; To pause and look back when thou hearest The sound of my name. |
| Gerald Griffin (1803–1840): A Place in thy Memory. |
| 8330 |
| Sparkling and bright in liquid light Does the wine our goblets gleam in; With hue as red as the rosy bed Which a bee would choose to dream in. |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman (1806–1884): Sparkling and Bright. |
| 8331 |
| The very mudsills of society…. We call them slaves…. But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere; it is eternal. |
| James H. Hammond (1807–1864): Speech in the U. S. Senate, March, 1858. |
| 8332 |
| It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war. |
| Charles Francis Adams (1807–1886): Despatch to Earl Russell, Sept. 5, 1863. |
| 8333 |
| We are swinging round the circle. |
| Andrew Johnson (1808–1875): On the Presidential Reconstruction Tour, August, 1866. |
| 8334 |
| We have been friends together In sunshine and in shade. |
| Caroline E. S. Norton (1808–1877): We have been Friends. |
| 8335 |
| All we ask is to be let alone. |
| Jefferson Davis (1808–1889): First Message to the Confederate Congress, March, 1861. |
| 8336 |
| ’T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I ’ve tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot. |
| Frederick W. Thomas (1808– ——): Absence conquers Love. |
| 8337 |
| Oh would I were a boy again, When life seemed formed of sunny years, And all the heart then knew of pain Was wept away in transient tears! |
| Mark Lemon (1809–1870): Oh would I were a Boy again. |
| 8338 |
| Wee Willie Winkie rins through the toun, Upstairs and dounstairs, in his nicht-goun, Tirlin’ at the window, cryin’ at the lock, “Are the weans in their bed? for it ’s nou ten o’clock.” |
| William Miller (1810–1872): Willie Winkie. |
| 8339 |
| We are Republicans, and don’t propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion. |
| Samuel D. Burchard (1812– ——),—one of the deputation visiting Mr. Blaine, Oct. 29, 1884. |
| 8340 |
| A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep! |
| Epes Sargent (1813–1881): Life on the Ocean Wave. |
| 8341 |
| What are the wild waves saying, Sister, the whole day long, That ever amid our playing I hear but their low, lone song? |
| Joseph E. Carpenter (1813– ——): What are the wild Waves saying? |
| 8342 |
| Well, General, we have not had many dead cavalrymen lying about lately. |
| Joseph Hooker (1813–1879): A remark to General Averill, November, 1862. |
| 8343 |
| Come in the evening, or come in the morning; Come when you ’re looked for, or come without warning. |
| Thomas O. Davis (1814–1845): The Welcome. |
| 8344 |
| But whether on the scaffold high Or in the battle’s van, The fittest place where man can die Is where he dies for man! |
| Michael J. Barry (Circa 1815): The Dublin Nation, Sept. 28, 1844, Vol. ii. p. 809. |