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

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Lady of the Lake. Canto iii. Stanza 16.

The rose is fairest when 't is budding new,

And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew,

And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.

Lady of the Lake. Canto iv. Stanza 1.

Art thou a friend to Roderick?

Lady of the Lake. Canto iv. Stanza 30.

Come one, come all! this rock shall fly

From its firm base as soon as I.