John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
4212 Thomas Gray 1716-1771 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 4212 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Gray (1716–1771) |
| QUOTATION: | When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawn’d from Bullen’s eyes. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Education and Government. |
| Note 1. This was intended to be introduced in the “Alliance of Education and Government.”—Mason’s edition of Gray, vol. iii. p. 114. [back] |