Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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[474:1] It was on this occasion [the failure in energy of Lord Mar at the battle of Sheriffmuir] that Gordon of Glenbucket made the celebrated exclamation, "Oh for an hour of Dundee!"—Mahon: History of England, vol. i. p. 184.

Oh for one hour of blind old Dandolo,

The octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe!

Byron: Childe Harold, canto iv. stanza 12.

[475:1] See Milton, page [239].

[476:1] See Milton, page [235].

[477:1] See Shakespeare, page [57].

[477:2] See Collins, page [390].

[478:1] This line is from Sir John Beaumont's "Battle of Bosworth Field."

[479:1] Heaven gives its favourites—early death.—Byron: Childe Harold, canto iv. stanza 102. Also Don Juan, canto iv. stanza 12.