John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
3558 Alexander Pope 1688-1744 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 3558 |
| AUTHOR: | Alexander Pope (1688–1744) |
| QUOTATION: | Then marble soften’d into life grew warm, And yielding, soft metal flow’d to human form. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 147. |
| Note 1. The canvas glow’d beyond ev’n Nature warm; The pregnant quarry teem’d with human form. Oliver Goldsmith: The Traveller, line 137. [back] |