A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?

The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.

Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater poverty of human invention than we would have expected, there is also a sort of wild fairy interest in them, which makes me think them fully better adapted to awaken the imagination and soften the heart of childhood than the good-boy stories which have been in later years composed for them.

Where, where was Roderick then? One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men.

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.