John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
2167 Robert Burton 1577-1640 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 2167 |
| AUTHOR: | Robert Burton (1577–1640) |
| QUOTATION: | No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2. |
| Note 1. Those curious locks so aptly twin’d, Whose every hair a soul doth bind. Thomas Carew: Think not ’cause men flattering say. One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.—Howell: Letters, book ii. iv. (1621). She knows her man, and when you rant and swear, Can draw you to her with a single hair. John Dryden: Persius, satire v. line 246. Beauty draws us with a single hair.—Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock, canto ii. line 27. And from that luckless hour my tyrant fair Has led and turned me by a single hair. Bland: Anthology, p. 20 (edition 1813). [back] |