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"Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he?"
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot. Prologue to the Satires. Line 213.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
""On wings of winds came flying all abroad.""
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot. Prologue to the Satires. Line 218.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe."
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot. Prologue to the Satires. Line 283.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?"
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot. Prologue to the Satires. Line 307.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way."
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot. Prologue to the Satires. Line 315.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust."
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot. Prologue to the Satires. Line 333.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"That not in fancy's maze he wander'd long, But stoop'd to truth, and moraliz'd his song."
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot. Prologue to the Satires. Line 340.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky."
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot. Prologue to the Satires. Line 408.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Lord Fanny spins a thousand such a day."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Satire i. Book ii. Line 6.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Satire 's my weapon, but I 'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Satire i. Book ii. Line 69.
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"But touch me, and no minister so sore; Whoe'er offends at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burden of some merry song."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Satire i. Book ii. Line 76.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Bare the mean heart that lurks behind a star."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Satire i. Book ii. Line 110.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl, The feast of reason and the flow of soul."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Satire i. Book ii. Line 127.
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"For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Satire ii. Book ii. Line 159.
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"Give me again my hollow tree, A crust of bread, and liberty."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Satire vi. Book ii. Line 220.
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"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epilogue to the Satires. Dialogue i. Line 136.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"To Berkeley every virtue under heaven."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epilogue to the Satires. Dialogue ii. Line 73.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book i. Line 38.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"He 's armed without that 's innocent within."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book i. Line 94.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book i. Line 103.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Above all Greek, above all Roman fame."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 26.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 35.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 108.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"One simile that solitary shines In the dry desert of a thousand lines."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 111.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Then marble soften'd into life grew warm, And yielding, soft metal flow'd to human form."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 147.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Who says in verse what others say in prose."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 202.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 267.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"E'en copious Dryden wanted or forgot The last and greatest art,--the art to blot."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 280.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Who pants for glory finds but short repose: A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 300.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 304.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 413.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Years following years steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle ii. Book ii. Line 72.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle ii. Book ii. Line 85.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Words that wise Bacon or brave Raleigh spoke."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle ii. Book ii. Line 168.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Grac'd as thou art with all the power of words, So known, so honour'd at the House of Lords."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle vi. Book i. To Mr. Murray.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Vain was the chief's the sage's pride! They had no poet, and they died."
Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Odes. Book iv. Ode 9.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light."
Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac Newton.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Ye Gods! annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy."
Martinus Scriblerus on the Art of Sinking in Poetry. Chap. xi.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"O thou! whatever title please thine ear, Dean, Drapier, Bickerstaff, or Gulliver! Whether thou choose Cervantes' serious air, Or laugh and shake in Rabelais' easy-chair."
The Dunciad. Book i. Line 19.
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"Poetic Justice, with her lifted scale, Where in nice balance truth with gold she weighs, And solid pudding against empty praise."
The Dunciad. Book i. Line 52.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Now night descending, the proud scene was o'er, But lived in Settle's numbers one day more."
The Dunciad. Book i. Line 89.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves to give their readers sleep."
The Dunciad. Book i. Line 93.
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"Next o'er his books his eyes begin to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole."
The Dunciad. Book i. Line 127.
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"Or where the pictures for the page atone, And Quarles is sav'd by beauties not his own."
The Dunciad. Book i. Line 139.
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"How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail."
The Dunciad. Book i. Line 279.
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"And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke."
The Dunciad. Book ii. Line 34.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Another, yet the same."
The Dunciad. Book iii. Line 90.
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"Till Peter's keys some christen'd Jove adorn, And Pan to Moses lends his pagan horn."
The Dunciad. Book iii. Line 109.
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"All crowd, who foremost shall be damn'd to fame."
The Dunciad. Book iii. Line 158.
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"Silence, ye wolves! while Ralph to Cynthia howls, And makes night hideous;--answer him, ye owls!"
The Dunciad. Book iii. Line 165.
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