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

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Rokeby. Canto vi. Stanza 21.

Come as the winds come, when

Forests are rended;

Come as the waves come, when

Navies are stranded.

Pibroch of Donald Dhu.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

Guy Mannering. Chap. xxxvii.

Bluid is thicker than water.[493:1]

Guy Mannering. Chap. xxxviii.