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

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And never lost an English gun.

Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington. Stanza 6.

Not once or twice in our rough-island story

The path of duty was the way to glory.

Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington. Stanza 8.

All in the valley of death

Rode the six hundred.

The Charge of the Light Brigade. Stanza 1.

Some one had blunder'd:

Theirs not to make reply,