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

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I held it truth, with him who sings

To one clear harp in divers tones,

That men may rise on stepping-stones

Of their dead selves to higher things.

Tennyson: In Memoriam, i.

[616:4] Sir Francis Drake entered the harbour of Cadiz, April 19, 1587, and destroyed shipping to the amount of ten thousand tons lading. To use his own expressive phrase, he had "singed the Spanish king's beard."—Knight: Pictorial History of England, vol. iii. p. 215.

[617:1] See Emerson, page [601].

[617:2]

Wer nie sein Brod mit Thränen ass,

Wer nicht die kummervollen Nächte