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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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Hartley Coleridge. (1796–1849) (continued)
She is not fair to outward view
As many maidens be;
Her loveliness I never knew
Until she smiled on me:
Oh! then I saw her eye was bright,
A well of love, a spring of light.
Song. She is not fair.
Her very frowns are fairer far
Than smiles of other maidens are.
Song. She is not fair.
Richard Ryan. (1796–1849)
O, saw ye the lass wi’ the bonnie blue een?
Her smile is the sweetest that ever was seen,
Her cheek like the rose is, but fresher, I ween,
She ’s the loveliest lassie that trips on the green.
O, saw ye the Lass.
I want you to see Peel, Stanley, Graham, Sheil, Russell, Macaulay, Old Joe, and soon. They are all upper-crust here.1
Sam Slick in England.2 Chap. xxiv.
Circumstances alter cases.
The old Judge. Chap. xv.
We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.3
The Clockmaker.
We can do without any article of luxury we have never had; but when once obtained, it is not in human natur’ to surrender it voluntarily.
The Clockmaker.
Note 1.
Those families, you know, are our upper-crust,—not upper ten thousand.—Cooper: The Ways of the Hour, chap. vi. (1850).
At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.—N. P. Willis: Necessity for a Promenade Drive. [back]
Note 2.
“Sam Slick” first appeared in a weekly paper of Nova Scotia, 1835. [back]
Note 3.
See Franklin, page 361: Time is money. [back]

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