John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
6138 Thomas Babington
| NUMBER: | 6138 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay (1800–1859) |
| QUOTATION: | A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man who succeeded only in an inferior department of his art, but who in that department succeeded pre-eminently. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | On John Dryden. 1828. |