John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Miscellaneous. (continued) |
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| Oh the heart is a free and a fetterless thing,— A wave of the ocean, a bird on the wing! |
| Julia Pardoe (1816–1862): The Captive Greek Girl. |
| 8346 |
| Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility. |
| Lord John Manners (1818– ——): England’s Trust. Part iii. Line 227. |
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| Why thus longing, thus forever sighing For the far-off, unattain’d, and dim, While the beautiful all round thee lying Offers up its low, perpetual hymn? |
| Harriet W. Sewall (1819–1889): Why thus longing? |
| 8348 |
| Don’t you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt? Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown; Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile, And trembl’d with fear at your frown! |
| Thomas Dunn English (1819– ——): Ben Bolt. |
| 8349 |
| The Survival of the Fittest. |
| Herbert Spencer (1820– ——): Principles of Biology, Vol. i. Chap. xii. (American edition, 1867.) |
| 8350 |
| Who fears to speak of Ninety-eight? Who blushes at the name? When cowards mock the patriot’s fate, Who hangs his head for shame? |
| John K. Ingram (1820– ——): The Dublin Nation, April 1, 1843, Vol. ii. p. 339. |
| 8351 |
| On Fame’s eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead. |
| Theodore O’Hara (1820–1867): The Bivouac of the Dead. (August, 1847.) |
| 8352 |
| Hold the fort! I am coming! |
| William T. Sherman (1820–1891),—signalled to General Corse in Allatoona from the top of Kenesaw, Oct. 5, 1864. |
| 8353 |
| For every wave with dimpled face That leap’d upon the air, Had caught a star in its embrace And held it trembling there. |
| Amelia B. Welby (1821–1852): Musings. Stanza 4. |
| 8354 |
| To look up and not down, To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand. |
| Edward Everett Hale (1822– ——): Rule of the “Harry Wadsworth Club” (from “Ten Times One is Ten,” 1870). |
| 8355 |
| Listen! John A. Logan is the Head Centre, the Hub, the King Pin, the Main Spring, Mogul, and Mugwump of the final plot by which partisanship was installed in the Commission. |
| Isaac H. Bromley (1833– ——): Editorial in the “New York Tribune,” Feb. 16, 1877. |
| 8356 |
| A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect. |
| Horace Porter (1837– ——), a bon-mot in the Cleveland-Blaine campaign of 1884. |