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

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For lovers love the western star.

Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto iii. Stanza 24.

Along thy wild and willow'd shore.

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

Ne'er

Was flattery lost on poet's ear;

A simple race! they waste their toil

For the vain tribute of a smile.

Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto iv. Stanza 35.

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