Footnotes

[359:4] Eripuit cœlo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis (He snatched the lightning from heaven, and the sceptre from tyrants),—a line attributed to Turgot, and inscribed on Houdon's bust of Franklin. Frederick von der Trenck asserted on his trial, 1794, that he was the author of this line.

[359:5] This sentence was much used in the Revolutionary period. It occurs even so early as November, 1755, in an answer by the Assembly of Pennsylvania to the Governor, and forms the motto of Franklin's "Historical Review," 1759, appearing also in the body of the work.—Frothingham: Rise of the Republic of the United States, p. 413.

[360:1] See Herbert, page [206].

[360:2] Clarke: Paræmiolgia, 1639.

My hour is eight o'clock, though it is an infallible rule, "Sanat, sanctificat, et ditat, surgere mane" (That he may be healthy, happy, and wise, let him rise early).—A Health to the Gentle Profession of Serving-men, 1598 (reprinted in Roxburghe Library), p. 121.

[360:3] See Lyly, page [32].

[360:4] See Tusser, page [21].

[360:5] See Heywood, page [11].

[361:1] Byron's European fame is the best earnest of his immortality, for a foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.—Horace Binney Wallace: Stanley, or the Recollections of a Man of the World, vol. ii. p. 89.

[361:2] Snug as a bug in a rug.—The Stratford Jubilee, ii. 1, 1779.

[361:3] It hath been said that an unjust peace is to be preferred before a just war.—Samuel Butler: Speeches in the Rump Parliament. Butler's Remains.

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NATHANIEL COTTON. 1707-1788.

If solid happiness we prize,

Within our breast this jewel lies,

And they are fools who roam.

The world has nothing to bestow;

From our own selves our joys must flow,

And that dear hut, our home.

The Fireside. Stanza 3.

To be resign'd when ills betide,

Patient when favours are deni'd,

And pleas'd with favours given,—

Dear Chloe, this is wisdom's part;

This is that incense of the heart [362:1]

Whose fragrance smells to heaven.

The Fireside. Stanza 11.

Thus hand in hand through life we 'll go;

Its checker'd paths of joy and woe

With cautious steps we 'll tread.

The Fireside. Stanza 31.

Yet still we hug the dear deceit.

Content. Vision iv.

Hold the fleet angel fast until he bless thee.

To-morrow.

HENRY FIELDING. 1707-1754.

All Nature wears one universal grin.

Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 1.

Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day;

Let other hours be set apart for business.

To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk;

And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.

Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 2.

When I 'm not thank'd at all, I 'm thank'd enough;

I 've done my duty, and I 've done no more.

Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 3.

Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit.

Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 3.

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To sun myself in Huncamunca's eyes.

Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 3.

Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets,

With a third dog one of the two dogs meets;

With angry teeth he bites him to the bone,

And this dog smarts for what that dog has done.[363:1]

Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 6.

I am as sober as a judge.[363:2]

Don Quixote in England. Act iii. Sc. 14.

Much may be said on both sides.[363:3]

The Covent Garden Tragedy. Act i. Sc. 8.

Enough is equal to a feast.[363:4]

The Covent Garden Tragedy. Act v. Sc. 1.

We must eat to live and live to eat.[363:5]

The Miser. Act iii. Sc. 3.

Penny saved is a penny got.[363:6]

The Miser. Act iii. Sc. 12.

Oh, the roast beef of England,

And old England's roast beef!

The Grub Street Opera. Act iii. Sc. 2.

This story will not go down.

Tumble-down Dick.

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Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

Tom Jones. Book iv. Chap. iv.

Distinction without a difference.

Tom Jones. Book vi. Chap. xiii.

Amiable weakness.[364:1]

Tom Jones. Book x. chap. viii.

The dignity of history.[364:2]

Tom Jones. Book xi. Chap. ii.

Republic of letters.

Tom Jones. Book xiv. Chap. i.

Illustrious predecessors.[364:3]

Covent Garden Journal. Jan. 11, 1752.