
St. 2.
The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bongy-Bò http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ll/ybb.html (1877)
Personal Talk, Stanza 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
St. 2.
The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bongy-Bò http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ll/ybb.html (1877)
Cyprus Avenue
Song lyrics, Astral Weeks (1969)
“Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale.”
Stanza 9
The Cotter's Saturday Night (1786)
“He would milk the white man…. The white man had more money than sense.”
Fiction, The Enemy in the Blanket (1958)
Opening stanza of "The Shepherdess" https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-shepherdess/ in Later Poems (London: John Lane, 1902).
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 50.
“I do believe a young lady can't be too careful who she marries.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXII : Traits of Friendship; Rachel to Helen