Page 365. John Bartlett, comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.

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

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William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. (1708–1778) (continued)

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The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter, the rain may enter,—but the King of England cannot enter; all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!

Speech on the Excise Bill.

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We have a Calvinistic creed, a Popish liturgy, and an Arminian clergy.

Prior’s Life of Burke (1790).

Samuel Johnson. (1709–1784)

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Let observation with extensive view
Survey mankind, from China to Peru. 1

Vanity of Human Wishes. Line 1.

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There mark what ills the scholar’s life assail,—
Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

Vanity of Human Wishes. Line 159.

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He left the name at which the world grew pale,
To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

Vanity of Human Wishes. Line 221.

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Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know
That life protracted is protracted woe.

Vanity of Human Wishes. Line 257.

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An age that melts in unperceiv’d decay,
And glides in modest innocence away.

Vanity of Human Wishes. Line 293.

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Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage.

Vanity of Human Wishes. Line 308.

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Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise!
From Marlb’rough’s eyes the streams of dotage flow,
And Swift expires, a driv’ler and a show.

Vanity of Human Wishes. Line 316.

Note 1.
All human race, from China to Peru,
Pleasure, howe’er disguised by art, pursue.
Thomas Warton: Universal Love of Pleasure.

De Quincey (Works, vol. x. p. 72) quotes the criticism of some writer, who contends with some reason that this high-sounding couplet of Dr. Johnson amounts in effect to this: Let observation with extensive observation observe mankind extensively. [back]

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