But whispering tongues can poison truth;
And constancy lives in realms above;
And life is thorny; and youth is vain;
And to be wroth with one we love
Doth work like madness in the brain.—Coleridge.
3. Surely this was his native village which he had left but the day before.—Irving.
4. As a rule, when I have heard some slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my memory.—Conan Doyle.
5. Milton, it is said, inherited what his predecessors created.—Macaulay.
6. For my own part, as the gondola slipped away from the blaze and bustle of the station down the gloom and silence of the broad canal, I forgot that I had been freezing two days and nights; that I was at that moment very cold and a little homesick.—Howells.
7. The king, as we have seen, must be an experienced warrior.—Prescott.