John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Edward Moore. (1712–1757) (continued) |
| 4120 |
| The maid who modestly conceals Her beauties, while she hides, reveals; Give but a glimpse, and fancy draws Whate’er the Grecian Venus was. |
| The Spider and the Bee. Fable x. |
| 4121 |
| But from the hoop’s bewitching round, Her very shoe has power to wound. |
| The Spider and the Bee. Fable x. |
| 4122 |
| Time still, as he flies, brings increase to her truth, And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth. |
| The Happy Marriage. |
| 4123 |
| I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice. 1 |
| The Gamester. Act ii. Sc. 2. |
| 4124 |
| ’T is now the summer of your youth. Time has not cropt the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them. |
| The Gamester. Act iii. Sc. 4. |
| 4125 |
| Labour for his pains. 2 |
| The Boy and the Rainbow. |
| Laurence Sterne. (1713–1768) |
| 4126 |
| Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me. |
| Tristram Shandy (orig. ed.). Vol. ii. chap. xii. |
| 4127 |
| Great wits jump. 3 |
| Tristram Shandy (orig. ed.). Vol. iii. Chap. ix. |
| 4128 |
| “Our armies swore terribly in Flanders,” cried my Uncle Toby, “but nothing to this.” |
| Tristram Shandy (orig. ed.). Vol. iii. Chap. xi. |
| 4129 |
| Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, the cant of criticism is the most tormenting! |
| Tristram Shandy (orig. ed.). Vol. iii. Chap. xii. |
| Note 1. See Johnson, Quotation 98. [back] |
| Note 2. See Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Quotation 1. [back] |
| Note 3. Great wits jump.—John Byrom: The Nimmers. Buckingham: The Chances, act. iv. sc. 1. Good wits jump.—Cervantes: Don Quixote, part ii. chap. xxxviii. [back] |