"Republic of letters."

Tom Jones. Book xiv. Chap. i.

"This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among lords."

Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. ii. Chap. i. 1754.

"A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden."

Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. iii. Chap. viii. 1772.

"I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing." . . . There was another fine passage too which he struck out: "When I was a young man, being anxious to distinguish myself, I was perpetually starting new propositions. But I soon gave this over; for I found that generally what was new was false.""

Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. vii. Chap. viii. 1779.

"Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow."

On a Distant Prospect of Eton College. Stanza 2.

"Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood."

Elegy in a Country Churchyard. Stanza 15.

"Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won."

The Deserted Village. Line 157.

"We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favours."

Vicar of Wakefield. Chap. i.

"Handsome is that handsome does."

Vicar of Wakefield. Chap. i.

"The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable."

Vicar of Wakefield. Chap. vii.

"I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellect too."

Vicar of Wakefield. Chap. vii.

"Because half-a-dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that of course they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour."

Reflections on the Revolution in France. Vol. iii. p. 344.

"Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower; Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads."

Table Talk. Line 690.

"Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the field of air."

The Botanic Garden. Part i. Canto i. Line 289.

"When chill November's surly blast Made fields and forests bare."

Man was made to Mourn.

"It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men."

Mem. by the Duke, Sept. 18, 1836.

"Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it hath witnessed,--render back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!"

The Excursion. Book vi.

"Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there In happier beauty; more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air, And fields invested with purpureal gleams."

Laodamia.

"When Prussia hurried to the field, And snatch'd the spear, but left the shield."

Marmion. Introduction to Canto iii.

"Shall victor exult, or in death be laid low, With his back to the field and his feet to the foe, And leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to heaven from the death-bed of fame."

Lochiel's Warning.

"I have read their platform, and though I think there are some unsound places in it, I can stand upon it pretty well. But I see nothing in it both new and valuable. "What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.""

Speech at Marshfield, Sept. 1, 1848. P. 433.

"Napoleon's troops fought in bright fields, where every helmet caught some gleams of glory; but the British soldier conquered under the cool shade of aristocracy. No honours awaited his daring, no despatch gave his name to the applauses of his countrymen; his life of danger and hardship was uncheered by hope, his death unnoticed."

Peninsular War (1810). Vol. ii. Book xi. Chap. iii.

"He rush'd into the field, and foremost fighting fell."

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 23.

"Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory."

The Burial of Sir John Moore.

"The victory of endurance born."

The Battle-Field.

"Truth crushed to earth shall rise again,-- The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his worshippers."

The Battle-Field.

"Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient."

On Import Duties, April 25, 1843.

"The noble lord is the Rupert of debate."

Speech, April, 1844.

"A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy."

Speech, March 17, 1845.

"A precedent embalms a principle."

Speech, Feb. 22, 1848.

"It is much easier to be critical than to be correct."

Speech, Jan. 24, 1860.

"The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity."

Speech, Nov. 25, 1864.

"Assassination has never changed the history of the world."

Speech, May, 1865.

"I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity."

Speech, Nov. 9, 1867.

"The secret of success is constancy to purpose."

Speech, June 24, 1870.

"The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children."

Speech, Nov. 19, 1870.

"Apologies only account for that which they do not alter."

Speech, July 28, 1871.

"Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man."

Speech, April 3, 1872.

"I repeat . . . that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist."

Vivian Grey. Book vi. Chap. vii.

"Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men."

Vivian Grey. Book vi. Chap. vii.

"The disappointment of manhood succeeds to the delusion of youth: let us hope that the heritage of old age is not despair."

Vivian Grey. Book viii. Chap. iv.

"The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph."

The Young Duke. Book i. Chap. v.

"Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius."

Contarini Fleming. Part iv. Chap. v.

"Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret."

Coningsby. Book iii. Chap. i.

"But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day, and the race a life."

Sybil. Book i. Chap. ii.

"Only think of Cockie Graves having gone and done it!"

Sybil. Book i. Chap. ii.

"The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,--a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others."

Sybil. Book i. Chap. iii.

"The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled."

Sybil. Book i. Chap. iii.

"If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,--and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking,--the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr."

Sybil. Book i. Chap. iii.

"That earliest shock in one's life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think."

Sybil. Book i. Chap. v.