HE least drop in the world I do not mind:
"Cognac" 's a noun I never yet declined.
H. J. Byron, in English Epigrams.
here is no middle course," said Charles X. to Talleyrand, "between the throne and the scaffold!" "Your Majesty forgets the post-chaise!"
Crabb Robinson, Diary.
COULD not, while you shone,
Run all that heartless babble off
That marks the modern Babylon.
Robert Reece, in Comic Poets.