| Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?. | | | | Iliad |
| | Iliads without a Homer.
Anonymous. | 1 |
| [So called in allusion to the beautiful but anonymous ballad poetry of Spain. See the Second Lecture of Archbishop Trench, on the Study of Words.] | 2 |
Iliads in a nutshell.
H. Howard.—In Memory of Fletcher, the Dramatist. (Beaumont and Fletcher, Vol. I.) | 3 |
An Iliad in a nutshell; a nutshell in an Iliad.
Swift.—The Tale of a Tub, Sec. 7. | 4 |
| [Pliny says that Cicero once saw the Iliad of Homer in a nutshell. See Disraeli’s Cur. of Lit. Vol. I. Page 275, on Minute writing.] | 5 | | |
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