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

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When first we practise to deceive!

Marmion. Canto vi. Stanza 17.

O woman! in our hours of ease

Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,

And variable as the shade

By the light quivering aspen made;

When pain and anguish wring the brow,

A ministering angel thou![490:1]

Marmion. Canto vi. Stanza 30.

"Charge, Chester, charge! on, Stanley, on!"