John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| William Cowper. (1731–1800) (continued) |
| 4466 |
| He would not, with a peremptory tone, Assert the nose upon his face his own. |
| Conversation. Line 121. |
| 4467 |
| A moral, sensible, and well-bred man Will not affront me,—and no other can. |
| Conversation. Line 193. |
| 4468 |
| Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society’s chief joys: Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours. |
| Conversation. Line 251. |
| 4469 |
| I cannot talk with civet in the room, A fine puss-gentleman that ’s all perfume. |
| Conversation. Line 283. |
| 4470 |
| The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge. 1 |
| Conversation. Line 299. |
| 4471 |
| His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home. 2 |
| Conversation. Line 303. |
| 4472 |
| Our wasted oil unprofitably burns, Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns. 3 |
| Conversation. Line 357. |
| 4473 |
| That good diffused may more abundant grow. |
| Conversation. Line 443. |
| 4474 |
| A business with an income at its heels Furnishes always oil for its own wheels. |
| Retirement. Line 614. |
| 4475 |
| Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress’d. |
| Retirement. Line 623. |
| 4476 |
| An idler is a watch that wants both hands, As useless if it goes as if it stands. |
| Retirement. Line 681. |
| 4477 |
| Built God a church, and laugh’d his word to scorn. |
| Retirement. Line 688. |
| Note 1. See Pope, Quotation 200. [back] |
| Note 2. See Pope, Quotation 251. [back] |
| Note 3. See Butler, Quotation 45. The story of a lamp which was supposed to have burned about fifteen hundred years in the sepulchre of Tullia, the daughter of Cicero, is told by Pancirollus and others. [back] |