John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Alexander Pope. (1688–1744) (continued) |
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| Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv’d no private end, Who gain’d no title, and who lost no friend. |
| Epistle to Mr. Addison. Line 67. |
| 3479 |
| ’T is with our judgments as our watches,—none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. 1 |
| Essay on Criticism. Part i. Line 9. |
| 3480 |
| One science only will one genius fit: So vast is art, so narrow human wit. |
| Essay on Criticism. Part i. Line 60. |
| 3481 |
| From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. |
| Essay on Criticism. Part i. Line 152. |
| 3482 |
| Those oft are stratagems which errors seem, Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream. 2 |
| Essay on Criticism. Part i. Line 177. |
| 3483 |
| Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgment, and misguide the mind; What the weak head with strongest bias rules,— Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. |
| Essay on Criticism. Part ii. Line 1. |
| 3484 |
| A little learning is a dangerous thing; 3 Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. |
| Essay on Criticism. Part ii. Line 15. |
| 3485 |
| Hills peep o’er hills, and Alps on Alps arise! |
| Essay on Criticism. Part ii. Line 32. |
| 3486 |
| Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be. 4 |
| Essay on Criticism. Part ii. Line 53. |
| 3487 |
| True wit is Nature to advantage dress’d, What oft was thought, but ne’er so well express’d. |
| Essay on Criticism. Part ii. Line 97. |
| 3488 |
| Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. |
| Essay on Criticism. Part ii. Line 109. |
| Note 1. See Suckling, Quotation 7. [back] |
| Note 2. Quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus (Even the worthy Homer some times nods).—Horace: De Arte Poetica, 359. [back] |
| Note 3. See Bacon, Quotation 18. [back] |
| Note 4. See Suckling, Quotation 10. [back] |