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

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'T is sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark

Bay deep-mouth'd welcome as we draw near home;

'T is sweet to know there is an eye will mark

Our coming, and look brighter when we come.

Don Juan. Canto i. Stanza 123.

Sweet is revenge—especially to women.

Don Juan. Canto i. Stanza 124.

And truant husband should return, and say,

"My dear, I was the first who came away."

Don Juan. Canto i. Stanza 141.