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

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If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright,

Go visit it by the pale moonlight.

Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto ii. Stanza 1.

O fading honours of the dead!

O high ambition, lowly laid!

Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto ii. Stanza 10.

I was not always a man of woe.

Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto ii. Stanza 12.

I cannot tell how the truth may be;

I say the tale as 't was said to me.