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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:3815
AUTHOR:John Gay (1685–1732)
QUOTATION:’T was when the sea was roaring
With hollow blasts of wind,
A damsel lay deploring,
All on a rock reclin’d.
ATTRIBUTION:The What d’ ye call it. Act ii. Sc. 8.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 

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