Minor Queries Answered.
"Many a Word."—Your correspondent's observations are perfectly correct: we daily use quotations we know not where to find. Perhaps some of your friends may be able to reply whence
"Many a word, at random spoke
Will rend a heart that's well-nigh broke."
S. P.
[The lines will be found in Walter Scott's Lord of the Isles, Canto V. St. 18.
"O! many a shaft, at random sent
Finds mark the archer little meant!
And many a word, at random spoken
May soothe or wound a heart's that broken!">[