John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| John Trumbull. (1750–1831) (continued) |
| That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose? |
| McFingal. Canto ii. Line 121. |
| 4665 |
| No man e’er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law. |
| McFingal. Canto iii. Line 489. |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan. (1751–1816) |
| 4666 |
| Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. |
| The Rivals. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 4667 |
| ’T is safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion. |
| The Rivals. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 4668 |
| A progeny of learning. |
| The Rivals. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 4669 |
| A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. |
| The Rivals. Act iii. Sc. 1. |
| 4670 |
| He is the very pine-apple of politeness! |
| The Rivals. Act iii. Sc. 3. |
| 4671 |
| If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs! |
| The Rivals. Act iii. Sc. 3. |
| 4672 |
| As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile. |
| The Rivals. Act iii. Sc. 3. |
| 4673 |
| Too civil by half. |
| The Rivals. Act iii. Sc. 4. |
| 4674 |
| Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with. |
| The Rivals. Act iv. Sc. 1. |
| 4675 |
| No caparisons, miss, if you please. Caparisons don’t become a young woman. |
| The Rivals. Act iv. Sc. 2. |
| 4676 |
| We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,—our retrospection will be all to the future. |
| The Rivals. Act iv. Sc. 2. |
| 4677 |
| You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you? |
| The Rivals. Act iv. Sc. 2. |