John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
4661 John Edwin 1749-1790 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 4661 |
| AUTHOR: | John Edwin (1749–1790) |
| QUOTATION: | A man’s ingress into the world is naked and bare, His progress through the world is trouble and care; And lastly, his egress out of the world, is nobody knows where. If we do well here, we shall do well there: I can tell you no more if I preach a whole year. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The Eccentricities of John Edwin (second edition), vol. i. p. 74. London, 1791. |
| Note 1. These lines Edwin offers as heads of a “sermon.” Longfellow places them in the mouth of “The Cobbler of Hagenau,” as a “familiar tune.” See “The Wayside Inn, part ii. The Student’s Tale.” [back] |