Produced by Chuck Greif and Pat Saumell
Familiar Quotations
A COLLECTION OF FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS.
WITH
COMPLETE INDICES OF AUTHORS AND SUBJECTS.
* * * * *
NEW YORK: HURST & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS.
PREFACE.
The object of this work is to show, to some extent, the obligations our language owes to various authors for numerous phrases and familiar quotations which have become "household words."
This Collection, originally made without any view of publication, has been considerably enlarged by additions from an English work on a similar plan, and is now sent forth with the hope that it may be found a convenient book of reference.
Though perhaps imperfect in some respects, it is believed to possess the merit of accuracy, as the quotations have been taken from the original sources.
Should this be favorably received, endeavors will be made to make it more worthy of the approbation of the public in a future edition.
INDEX OF AUTHORS.
Addison, Joseph Akenside, Mark Aldrich, James Austin, Mrs. Sarah Bacon, Francis Bailey, Philip James Barbauld, Mrs Barnfield, Richard Barrett, Eaton Stannard Basse, William Baxter, Richard Beattie, James Beaumont, Francis Berkeley, Bishop Blair, Robert Bolingbroke, Lord Booth, Barton Brown, Tom Brown, John Bryant, William Cullen Bunyan, John Burns, Robert Butler, Samuel Byrom, John Byron, Lord Campbell, Thomas Canning, George Carew, Thomas Carey, Henry Cervantes, Miguel de Charles II Churchill, Charles Cibber, Colley Coke, Lord Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Collins, William Colman, George Congreve, William Cotton, Nathaniel Cowley, Abraham Cowper, William Crabbe, George Cranch, Christopher P. Crashaw, Richard Defoe, Daniel Dekker, Thomas Denham, Sir John Doddridge, Philip Dodsley, Robert Donne, Dr. John Drake, Joseph Rodman Dryden, John Dyer, John Everett, David Franklin, Benjamin Fletcher, Andrew Fouche, Joseph Fuller, Thomas Garrick, David Gay, John Goldsmith, Oliver Grafton, Richard Gray, Thomas Green, Matthew Greene, Albert G. Greville, Fulke (Lord Brooke) Halleck, Fitz-Greene Herbert, George Herrick, Robert Hervey, Thomas K. Hill, Aaron Hobbes, Thomas Holy Scriptures Holmes, Oliver Wendell Home, John Hood, Thomas Hopkinson, Joseph Irving, Washington Johnson, Samuel Jones, Sir William Jonson, Ben Keats, John Key, F.S. Kempis, Thomas a Lamb, Charles Langhorn, John Lee, Nathaniel L'Estrange, Roger Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Lowell, James Russell Lovelace, Sir Richard Lyttelton, Lord Lytton, Edward Bulwer Macaulay, Thomas Babington Marlowe, Christopher Mickle, William Julius Milnes, Richard Monckton Milton, John, Montague, Lady Mary Wortley Montrose, Marquis of Moore, Edward Moore, Thomas Morris, Charles Morton, Thomas Moss, Thomas Norris, John Otway, Thomas Paine, Thomas Palafox, Don Joseph Parnell, Thomas Percy, Thomas Philips, John Pollok, Robert Pope, Alexander Porteus, Beilby Prior, Matthew Proctor, Bryan Walter Quarles, Francis Rabelais, Francis Raleigh, Sir Walter Randolph, John Rochefoucauld, Duc de Rochester, Earl of Rogers, Samuel Roscommon, Earl of Rowe, Nicholas Savage, Richard Scott, Sir Walter Sewall, Jonathan M. Sewell, Dr. George Shakespeare, William Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire Shenstone, William Sheridan, Richard Brinsley Shirley, James Sidney, Sir Philip Smollett, Tobias Southern, Thomas Southey, Robert Spencer, William R. Spenser, Edmund Sprague, Charles Steers, Miss Fanny Sterne, Laurence Suckling, Sir John Swift, Jonathan Sylvester, Joshua Taylor, Henry Tennyson, Alfred Tertullian Theobald, Louis Thomson, James Thrale, Mrs Tickell, Thomas Trumbull, John Tuke, Sir Samuel Tusser, Thomas Uhland, John Louis Walcott John (Peter Pindar) Waller, Edmund Warburton, Thomas Watts, Isaac Wither, George Wolfe, Charles Woodsworth, Samuel Wordsworth, William Wotton, Sir Henry Young, Edward
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Familiar Quotations
- 2: My punishment is greater than I can bear Genesis ix
- 3: Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me
- 4: Righteousness exalteth a nation
- 5: Be not righteous overmuch Ecclesiastes ix
- 6: To give unto them beauty for ashes
- 7: And it shall be opened unto you
- 8: And if the blind lead the blind
- 9: Therefore if thine enemy hunger
- 10: By evil report and good report
- 11: Unto the pure all things are pure
- 12: Our revels row are ended these our actors
- 13: With the following additional stanza Hide
- 14: And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind
- 15: Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing
- 16: And then from hour to hour we rot and rot
- 17: A merry heart goes all the day
- 18: This Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek
- 19: And the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of
- 20: Something wicked this way comes
- 21: I would applaud thee to the very echo
- 22: Give you a reason on compulsion
- 23: Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just
- 24: Was ever woman in this humor wooed
- 25: Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look
- 26: For Brutus is an honorable man
- 27: Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel
- 28: And of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us
- 29: Beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips
- 30: Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy
- 31: Thus conscience does make cowards of us all
- 32: To give the world assurance of a man
- 33: Horatio a fellow of infinite jest
- 34: O thou invisible spirit of wine
- 35: Except wind stands as never it stood
- 36: Is now confidently assigned to Barnfield
- 37: I received nor rhyme nor reason
- 38: Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke
- 39: Some asked me where the Rubies grew
- 40: 5 Note 5 Lympha pudica Deum vidit et erubuit
- 41: Though in hell Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven
- 42: Offspring of Heaven first born
- 43: Her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing
- 44: How charming is divine philosophy
- 45: Warble his native wood notes wild
- 46: Second Sonnet to Cyriac Skinner
- 47: Canto ii Line 503And look before you ere you leap
- 48: And thrice he routed all his foes
- 49: Translation of Juvenal's 10th Satire
- 50: And Homer will be all the books you need
- 51: Here lies what once was Matthew Prior
- 52: And spread the truth from pole to pole
- 53: Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast
- 54: Whether the charmers sinner it or saint it
- 55: As those move easiest who have learned to dance
- 56: And without sneering teach the rest to sneer
- 57: So comes a reckoning when the banquet's o'er
- 58: 'On the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini
- 59: 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours
- 60: And pyramids are pyramids in vales
- 61: And in his calling let him nothing call But Coach
- 62: So stands the statue that enchants the world
- 63: 18 Note 18 This line was altered
- 64: And shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe
- 65: Written on the Window of an Inn
- 66: Their cause I plead plead it in heart and mind
- 67: Ode on the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude
- 68: Within our breast this jewel lies
- 69: The sports of children satisfy the child
- 70: What art can wash her guilt away
- 71: Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare
- 72: 20 Note 20 God the first garden made
- 73: Never sighed at the sound of a knell
- 74: 21 Note 21 Six hours in sleep
- 75: Minds are not ever craving for their food
- 76: Should auld acquaintance be forgot
- 77: As great lord's stories often are
- 78: And few could know When Lucy ceased to be
- 79: The sleepless soul that perished in his pride
- 80: Her mirths Her humblest mirth and tears
- 81: That on their restless fronts Bore stars
- 82: Who loveth well Both man and bird and beast
- 83: Doth wash your city of Cologne
- 84: And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away
- 85: Were the last words of Marmion
- 86: And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears
- 87: No pent up Utica contracts your powers
- 88: Rome shall stand When falls the Coliseum
- 89: 23 Note 23 Solitudinem fociunt pacem appellant
- 90: Monody on the Death of Sheridan
- 91: Our very hopes belied our fears
- 92: Never less alone than when alone
- 93: HENRY TAYLOR Philip Van Artevelde
- 94: With wind and clouds and changing skies
- 95: Such graves as his are pilgrim shrines
- 96: And rare Beaumont lie A little nearer Spenser
- 97: Feeling deeper than all thought
- 98: Praise undeserved is Satire in disguise
- 99: There is no more to be desired
- 100: Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth
- 101: Nevertheless his image cut in ebony
- 102: One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous
- 103: On Ranke's History of the Popes
- 104: To the word Actions of the just like almanacs Acts
- 105: Good digestion wait on Appetite
- 106: No end in the running brooks
- 107: Away Charmers sinner it Charybdis
- 108: Those thousand daily flow from Decency
- 109: More peril in thine sublime declared absolute rule
- 110: The ripest first falls Fuel to the flame Full
- 111: Lend thee Glowworms uneffectual fire Gnat
- 112: Man the Hero perish or sparrow fall Herod
- 113: The leopard lie down with the Kin
- 114: Is protracted woe 's dull round Life
- 115: The noblest work of God of Ross
- 116: Schemes of mice and by losing rendered sager
- 117: I am sir of God Orators repair Orb in orb Order of
- 118: Blend our pleasure or that apes humility Primrose
- 119: Wash the river Rhyme nor reason
- 120: Whited Sermons in stones Serpent sting thee twice Serpents
- 121: Squeak and gibber in the Strength
- 122: Noiseless foot of count by heart throbs
- 123: He jests at scars that never felt a Wrack
