John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Robert Hall. (1764–1831) |
| 4832 |
| His [Burke’s] imperial fancy has laid all Nature under tribute, and has collected riches from every scene of the creation and every walk of art. |
| Apology for the Freedom of the Press. |
| 4833 |
| He [Kippis] might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move. |
| Gregory’s Life of Hall. |
| 4834 |
| Call things by their right names…. Glass of brandy and water! That is the current but not the appropriate name: ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation. 1 |
| Gregory’s Life of Hall. |
| Thomas Morton. (1764–1838) |
| 4835 |
| What will Mrs. Grundy say? |
| Speed the Plough. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| 4836 |
| Push on,—keep moving. |
| A Cure for the Heartache. Act ii. Sc. 1. |
| 4837 |
| Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed. |
| A Cure for the Heartache. Act v. Sc. 2. |
| Sir James Mackintosh. (1765–1832) |
| 4838 |
| Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself. |
| Vindiciæ Gallicæ. |
| 4839 |
| The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity. |
| Vindiciæ Gallicæ. |
| 4840 |
| Disciplined inaction. |
| Causes of the Revolution of 1688. Chap. vii. |
| 4841 |
| The frivolous work of polished idleness. |
| Dissertation on Ethical Philosophy. Remarks on Thomas Brown. |
| Note 1. See Tourneur, Quotation 1. He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin.—Diogenes Laertius: Pythagoras, vi. [back] |