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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

Page 329

Alexander Pope. (1688–1744) (continued)

3549

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epilogue to the Satires. Dialogue i. Line 136.

3550

To Berkeley every virtue under heaven.

Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epilogue to the Satires. Dialogue ii. Line 73.

3551

When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one.

Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book i. Line 38.

3552

He ’s armed without that ’s innocent within.

Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book i. Line 94.

3553

Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace;
If not, by any means get wealth and place. 1

Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book i. Line 103.

3554

Above all Greek, above all Roman fame. 2

Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 26.

3555

Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.

Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 35.

3556

The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease.

Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 108.

3557

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.

3558

Then marble soften’d into life grew warm,
And yielding, soft metal flow’d to human form. 3

Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 147.

3559

Who says in verse what others say in prose.

Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 202.

3560

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.

3561

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.

3562

Who pants for glory finds but short repose:
A breath revives him, or a breath o’erthrows. 4

Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 300.

3563

There still remains to mortify a wit
The many-headed monster of the pit. 5

Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 304.

Note 1.
See Ben Jonson, Quotation 4. [back]

Note 2.
See Dryden, Quotation 1. [back]

Note 3.
The canvas glow’d beyond ev’n Nature warm;
The pregnant quarry teem’d with human form.
Oliver Goldsmith: The Traveller, line 137. [back]

Note 4.
A breath can make them as a breath has made.—Oliver Goldsmith: The Deserted Village, line 54. [back]

Note 5.
See Sidney, Quotation 6. [back]

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