John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
3645 Alexander Pope 1688-1744 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 3645 |
| AUTHOR: | Alexander Pope (1688–1744) |
| QUOTATION: | And unextinguish’d laughter shakes the skies. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The Iliad of Homer. Book i. Line 771. |
| Note 1. The same line occurs in the translation of the Odyssey, book viii. line 366. [back] |