Wooden Walls. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Wooden Walls


The Delphic oracle commanded Athens to defend herself behind wooden walls. She did so, and Themistocles obtained a complete and brilliant victory over the Persians. Rollin.—Ancient History, Preface, Page xix. (Plutarch in Demosthenes, Page 854.)	1
About our isle he builds a wall. Waller.—Of Lady Mary, Princess of Orange.	2
A wall! like that which Athens had, By th’ oracle’s advice, of wood. Waller.—Of Lady Mary, Princess of Orange, last Verse.	3
There’s not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate every soil, Must bring its tribute great or small And help to build the wooden wall. Longfellow.—By the Seaside; the building of the ship.	4