REZIN A. WIGHT.

[[v]]

PREFACE.

"Out of the old fieldes cometh al this new corne fro yere to yere,"

And out of the fresh woodes cometh al these new flowres here.

The small thin volume, the first to bear the title of this collection, after passing through eight editions, each enlarged, now culminates in its ninth,—and with it, closes its tentative life.

This extract from the Preface of the fourth edition is applicable to the present one:—

"It is not easy to determine in all cases the degree of familiarity that may belong to phrases and sentences which present themselves for admission; for what is familiar to one class of readers may be quite new to another. Many maxims of the most famous writers of our language, and numberless curious and happy turns from orators and poets, have knocked at the door, and it was hard to deny them. But to admit these simply on their own merits, without assurance that the general reader would readily recognize them as old friends, was aside from the purpose of this collection. Still, it has been thought better to incur the risk of erring on the side of fulness."

With the many additions to the English writers, the present edition contains selections from the French, and from the wit and wisdom of the ancients. A few passages have been admitted without a claim to familiarity, but solely on the ground of coincidence of thought.

[[vi]]I am under great obligations to M. H. Morgan, Ph. D., of Harvard University, for the translation of Marcus Aurelius, and for the translation and selections from the Greek tragic writers. I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Daniel W. Wilder, of Kansas, for the quotations from Pilpay, with contributions from Diogenes Laertius, Montaigne, Burton, and Pope's Homer; to Dr. William J. Rolfe for quotations from Robert Browning; to Mr. James W. McIntyre for quotations from Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Mrs. Browning, Robert Browning, and Tennyson. And I have incurred other obligations to friends for here a little and there a little.

It gives me pleasure to acknowledge the great assistance I have received from Mr. A. W. Stevens, the accomplished reader of the University Press, as this work was passing through the press.

In withdrawing from this very agreeable pursuit, I beg to offer my sincere thanks to all who have assisted me either in the way of suggestions or by contributions; and especially to those lovers of this subsidiary literature for their kind appreciation of former editions.

Accepted by scholars as an authoritative book of reference, it has grown with its growth in public estimation with each reissue. Of the last two editions forty thousand copies were printed, apart from the English reprints. The present enlargement of text equals three hundred and fifty pages of the previous edition, and the index is increased with upwards of ten thousand lines.

Cambridge, March, 1891.

[[vii]]

INDEX OF AUTHORS.

Page
[Adams, Charles F.][678]
[Adams, John][429]
Adams, John, note[529], [530]
[Adams, John Quincy][312], [458]
[Adams, Sarah Flower][606]
[Addison, Joseph][297]
[Ady, Thomas][684]
Æschines, note[810]
[Æschylus][695]
Agricola, note[686]
[Akenside, Mark][391]
Alanus de Insulis, note[5]
[Aldrich, James][639]
[Ali Ben Taleb][767]
[Allen, Elizabeth A.][668]
[Alphonso the Wise][768]
[Amelia, Princess][676]
Ames, Fisher, note[283]
Archilochus, note[216]
Ariosto, note[552]
Aristides, note[438]
Aristophanes, note[731]
Aristotle, note[267], [853]
[Armstrong, John][672]
[Arnold, Matthew][665]
Arnold, Samuel J., note[388]
Arrianus, note[704]
[Athenæus][766]
Avonmore, Lord, note[531]
[Bacon, Francis][164]
Bacon, Lady Anne, note[7]
[Bailey, Philip James][654]
[Baillie, Joanna][674]
Bancroft, George, note[531]
[Barbauld, Mrs.][433]
[Barère, Bertrand][804]
[Barham, R. H.][676]
[Barker, Theodore L.][682]
[Barnfield, Richard][175]
[Barrett, Eaton S.][676]
[Barrington, George][445]
Barrow, Isaac, note[299]
[Barry, Michael J.][680]
Basse, William, note[179]
[Baxter, Richard][670]
Bayard, Chevalier, note[21]
Bayle, Peter, note[604]
[Bayly, T. Haynes][581]
[Beattie, James][428]
[Beaumont and Fletcher][197]
[Beaumont, Francis][196]
Beaumont, John, note[478]
[Bee, Bernard E.][860]
Bell, Robert, note[330]
[Bellamy, G. W.][682]
[Bellinghausen, Von Münch][806]
[Bentham, Jeremy][856]
[Bentley, Richard][284]
[Benton, Thomas H.][858]
[Berkeley, Bishop][312]
Berners, Juliana, note[182]
Berry, Dorothy, note[484]
Bertaut, Jean, note[100]
Bertin, Mademoiselle, note[811]
Bettelheim, A. S., note[170]
[Bickerstaff, Isaac][427]
[Blacker, Colonel][588]
Blackmore, Richard, note[685]
[Blackstone, Sir William][392]
[Blair, Robert][354]
[Blamire, Susanna][673]
Bland, Robert, note[191]
Bobart, Jacob, note[688]
Bodinus, note[418]
Bodley, Sir Thomas, note[368]
Boethius, note[618]
[Boileau][799]
[Bolingbroke][304]
[Booth, Barton][306]
Borbonius, note[321]
[Bourdillon, Francis W.][669]
[Bracton][857]
[Brainard, John G. C.][677]
[[viii]][Bramston, James][352]
Breen, H. H., note[409]
[Brereton, Jane][312]
Breton, Nicholas, note[33]
[Bromley, Isaac H.][681]
[Brooke, Lord][35]
[Brougham, Lord][527]
Brougham, Lord, note[426]
[Brown, John][380]
[Brown, Tom][286]
[Browne, Sir Thomas][217]
[Browne, William][201]
[Browning, Elizabeth B.][620]
[Browning, Robert][643]
[Bryant, William Cullen][572]
[Brydges, Sir S. Egerton][674]
Buffon, note[186]
Bulfinch, Samuel G., note[488]
[Bunn, Alfred][561]
Bunsen, Carl Josias, note[770]
[Bunyan, John][265]
[Burchard, Samuel D.][679]
[Burke, Edmund][407]
Burnet, Gilbert, note[610]
[Burns, Robert][446]
[Burton, Robert][185]
Bussy de Rabutin, note[286]
[Butler, Samuel][209]
Butler, Samuel, note[361]
Byrd, William, note[22]
[Byrom, John][351]
[Byron, Lord][539]
[Calhoun, John C.][529]
Callimachus, note[496]
Campbell, Lord, note[418], [528]
[Campbell, Thomas][512]
[Camden, William][684]
Cambronne, note[810]
[Canning, George][464]
[Carew, Thomas][200]
[Carey, Henry][285]
[Carlyle, Thomas][577]
[Carpenter, Joseph E.][680]
Carruthers, Robert, note[528]
Catinat, Marshal, note[740]
Catullus, note[306]
[Centlivre, Susannah][671]
[Cervantes][784]
[Channing, William E.][655]
[Chapman, George][35]
Charles I., note[398]
Charron, note[317]
[Chase, Salmon P.][619]
[Chaucer, Geoffrey][1]
[Cherry, Andrew][453]
[Chesterfield, Earl of][352]
[Child, Lydia Maria][596]
[Choate, Rufus][588]
[Chorley, Henry F.][667]
[Christy, David][854]
Church, Benjamin, note[513]
[Churchill, Charles][412]
[Cibber, Colley][295]
Cibber, Colley, note[294]
[Cicero][705]
[Clarendon, Edward Hyde][255]
Clarke, John, note[568]
[Clarke, Macdonald][582]
[Clay, Henry][516]
Clay, Henry, note[505]
[Cleveland, Grover][669]
Codrington, Christopher, note[295]
[Coke, Sir Edward][24]
[Coleridge, Hartley][677]
[Coleridge, S. Taylor][498]
Coleridge, S. Taylor, note[481]
[Collins, William][389]
[Colman, George][454]
[Colton, C. C.][675]
[Congreve, William][294]
Constable, Henry, note[484]
[Constant, Henry B.][806]
[Cook, Eliza][654]
Cooper, J. Fenimore, note[580]
Cornuel, Madame, note[740]
[Cotton, Nathaniel][362]
[Cowley, Abraham][260]
[Cowper, William][413]
[Crabbe, George][443]
[Cranch, Christopher P.][653]
Cranfield, note[210]
[Crashaw, Richard][258]
[Crawford, Anne][673]
Cristyne, note[12]
[Crockett, David][852]
Croker, John W., note[284]
[Cunningham, Allan][537]
[Curran, John P.][855]
Curtius, Quintus, note[25]
[D'Abrantes, Duc][806]
D'Abrantes, Madame, note[718]
Dalrymple, Sir John, note[550]
[Dance, Charles][677]
[Daniel, Samuel][39]
[Dante][769]
Danton, note[28]
[Darwin, Charles][622]
[Darwin, Erasmus][424]
Darwin, Erasmus, note[426]
[Davenant, Sir William][217]
Davie, Adam, note[21]
[[ix]][Davies, Scrope][682]
[Davies, Sir John][175]
[Davis, Jefferson][679]
[Davis, Thomas O.][680]
[De Benserade, Isaac][794]
Debrett, John, note[432]
[Decatur, Stephen][675]
De Caux, note[396]
[Deffand, Madame du][801]
[Defoe, Daniel][286]
[Dekker, Thomas][181]
De la Ferté, note[430]
[De Ligne][803]
[De L'Isle, Joseph R.][804]
Demodocus, note[400]
De Morgan, note[290]
[Demosthenes][855]
[Denham, Sir John][257]
[Denman, Lord][527]
[Dennis, John][282]
De Quincey, note[365]
[Dibdin, Charles][436]
[Dibdin, Thomas][675]
[Dickens, Charles][652]
[Dickinson, John][426]
Dickman, Franklin J., note[589]
Didacus Stella, note[185]
[Diogenes Laertius][757]
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, note[304]
[Dionysius the Elder][700]
[Disraeli, Benjamin][607]
[Dix, John A.][678]
[Doddridge, Philip][359]
[Dodsley, Robert][671]
[Domett, Alfred][642]
[Donne, John][177]
[Dowling, Bartholomew][641]
[Drake, Joseph Rodman][573]
[Drayton, Michael][40]
[Drennan, William][855]
[Drummond, Thomas][582]
[Drummond, William][196]
Drummond, William note[170]
[Dryden, John][267]
[Du Bartas][780]
[Dufferin, Lady][611]
Dumas, Alexandre, note[809]
Duncombe, Lewis, note[459]
D'Urfey, note[348]
[Dwight, Timothy][674]
[Dyer, Edward][22]
[Dyer, John][358]
[Dyer ——][672]
Eastwick, note[437]
Edgeworth, Maria, note[283]
[Edwards, Richard][21]
[Edwards, Thomas][671]
[Edwin, John][439]
Elliot, Jared, note[392]
[Elliott, Jane][393]
Ellis, George, note[175]
[Ellis, Henry][675]
[Emerson, Ralph Waldo][598]
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, note[511]
[Emmet, Robert][675]
[English, Thomas Dunn][680]
[Epictetus][742]
Erasmus, note[3], [5], [216], [720]
Estienne, Henri, note[379]
[Euripides][697]
Euripides, note[277]
[Everett, David][459]
[Everett, Edward][571]
[Faber, Frederick W.][653]
[Fanshawe, Catherine M.][674]
[Farquhar, George][305]
Fénelon, note[353]
[Ferriar, John][456]
[Field, Nathaniel][670]
[Fielding, Henry][362]
[Finch, Francis M.][668]
Fitz-Geffrey, Charles, note[305]
[Fletcher, Andrew][281]
[Fletcher, Julia A.][642]
[Fletcher, John][183]
Fletcher, Phineas, note[327]
[Foote, Samuel][391]
[Ford, John][670]
[Fordyce, James][391]
[Fortescue, John][7]
[Fouché, Joseph][805]
Fournier, note[310]
Fox, Charles J., note[364]
Fox, John, note[484]
Francis the First, note[807]
Franck, Richard, note[305]
[Franklin, Benjamin][359]
[Franklin, Kate][682]
[Freneau, Philip][443]
[Frere, J. Hookham][462]
Frothingham, Richard, note[360]
[Fuller, Thomas][221]
Fuller, Thomas, note[484]
Gage, Thomas, note[495]
[Garrick, David][387]
[Garrison, William L.][605]
[Garth, Samuel][295]
Garth, Samuel, note[181]
Gascoigne, George, note[10]
[Gay, John][347]
[[x]]Getty, Rev. Dr., note[631]
[Gibbon, Edward][430]
[Gibbons, Thomas][672]
[Gifford, Richard][393]
[Goethe, Wolfgang von][803]
[Goldsmith, Oliver][394]
Goldsmith, Oliver, note[310], [592]
Googe, Barnaby, note[5], [7]
Gorgias, note[578]
Gosson, Stephen, note[731]
Gower, John, note[13]
[Grafton, Richard][684]
Granger, James, note[395]
[Grant, Anne][674]
[Grant, Ulysses S.][664]
[Graves, Richard][672]
Graves, Richard, note[295]
[Gray, Thomas][381]
[Green, Matthew][354]
[Greene, Albert G.][596]
Greene, Robert, note[190]
Greswell, note[332]
[Greville, Mrs.][389]
[Griffin, Gerald][678]
Gualtier, Phillippe, note[64]
Guarini, note[495]
Habington, William, note[515]
[Hakewill, George][683]
Hakewill, George, note[169]
[Hale, Edward E.][681]
[Haliburton, Thomas C.][580]
[Hall, Bishop][182]
[Hall, Robert][457]
[Halleck, Fitz-Greene][561]
[Halliwell, James O.][853]
Halliwell, James O., note[596]
Hamilton, Alexander, note[532]
[Hammond, J. H.][678]
Hannah, J., note[22]
Hare, Julius, note[268]
[Harrington, Sir John][39]
[Harrison, William][684]
[Harte, Francis Bret][669]
[Harvey, Stephen][670]
[Hawker, Robert][674]
Hawker, Robert S., note[687]
Hayes, Edward, note[588]
[Hayes, Rutherford B.][665]
[Heath, Leonard][666]
[Heber, Reginald][535]
Hegge, Robert, note[181]
[Hemans, Felicia D.][569]
Hénault, note[325]
Hendyng, note[7]
[Henry, Mathew][282]
[Henry, Patrick][429]
[Henshaw, Joseph][263]
[Herbert, George][204]
Herodotus, note[696], [807]
[Herrick, Robert][201]
[Hervey, Thomas K.][589]
[Hesiod][692]
[Heywood, John][8]
[Heywood, Thomas][194]
[Hill, Aaron][313]
[Hill, Rowland][673]
[Hippocrates][700]
[Hobbes, Thomas][200]
[Hoffman, Charles F.][678]
[Holcroft, Thomas][673]
[Holland, Sir Richard][38]
[Holmes, Oliver Wendell][635]
[Home, John][392]
[Hood, Thomas][583]
[Hooker, Joseph][680]
[Hooker, Richard][31]
[Hooper, Ellen Sturgis][654]
Hopkins, Charles, note[581]
[Hopkinson, Joseph][465]
[Horace][706]
[Horne, Bishop][853]
[Horne, Richard H.][604]
[Howard, Samuel][672]
Howell, James, note[191], [208], [581]
[Howitt, Mary][605]
[Hoyle, Edmund][861]
[Hume, David][854]
Hume, David, note[593], [685]
[Hunt, Leigh][536]
[Hurd, Richard][673]
[Hurdis, James][454]
[Hutcheson, Francis][856]
[Ingram, John K.][681]
[Irving, Washington][536]
[Jackson, Andrew][458]
[James, G. P. R.][678]
[James, Paul M.][528]
[Jefferson, Thomas][434]
[Jefferys, Charles][611]
[Jerrold, Douglas][597]
[Johnson, Andrew][678]
[Johnson, Samuel][365]
Johnson, Samuel, note[185], [294], [711]
[Jones, Sir William][437]
[Jonson, Ben][177]
[Juvenal][721]
[Keats, John][574]
[Keble, John][569]
[Kemble, Frances Anne][641]
[[xi]][Kemble, J. P.][445]
[Kempis, Thomas à][7]
[Ken, Thomas][278]
[Kenney, James][676]
Kenrick, William, note[450]
[Kepler, John][670]
[Key, Francis S.][517]
Key, T. H., note[560]
King, William, note[217]
[Kinglake, John A.][860]
[Kingsley, Charles][664]
Knight, Charles, note[616]
Knolles, Richard, note[267]
[Knowles, James S.][676]
[Knox, William][561]
[Kotzebue, Von][805]
[La Fontaine][797]
[Lamb, Charles][508]
Lamb, Charles, note[274]
[Landor, Walter S.][511]
[Langford, G. W.][683]
[Langhorne, John][427]
[La Rochefoucauld][794]
[Layard, Austen H.][642]
[Lee, Henry][445]
[Lee, Nathaniel][281]
Leighton, Archbishop, note[379]
[Lemon, Mark][679]
[Le Sage][800]
[L'Estrange, Roger][670]
Leutsch and Schneidewin, note[793]
[Ligne, Prince de][803]
[Lincoln, Abraham][622]
[Linley, George][586]
[Linschoten, Hugh van][861]
Livy, note[13]
Lloyd, David, note[310]
[Lockhart, John G.][677]
Lockhart, John G., note[427], [490]
[Logan, John][438]
[Logau, Friedrich von][793]
[Longfellow, Henry W.][612]
[Lovelace, Richard][259]
[Lover, Samuel][582]
[Lowe, John][673]
[Lowell, James Russell][656]
[Lowth, Robert][672]
[Lucretius][706]
Lydgate, John, note[5]
[Luther, Martin][770]
[Lyly, John][31]
[Lyttelton, Lord][377]
[Lytton, Sir E. Bulwer][606]
[Macaulay, Thomas B.][589]
Macaulay, Thomas B., note,[332], [610], [855]
[Mackay, Charles][653]
[Mackintosh, James][457]
Mackintosh, James, note[291]
[Macklin, Charles][350]
[Madden, Samuel][314]
[Mahon, Lord][860]
Mahon, Lord, note[364], [474]
[Manners, Lord John][680]
[Marcus Aurelius][749]
[Marcy, William L.][676]
Markham, Gervase, note[187]
[Marlowe, Christopher][40]
Marmion, Shakerley, note[171]
[Martial][722]
Martin, Henri, note[807]
[Marvell, Andrew][262]
[Mason, William][393]
[Massinger, Philip][194]
McMaster, John B., note[435]
[Maule][857]
[Mee, William][682]
Melchior, note[171]
Menander, note[390]
[Merrick, James][390]
Meurier, Gabriel, note[80]
[Michelangelo][769]
[Mickle, William J.][426]
[Middleton, Thomas][172]
[Miller, William][679]
[Milman, Henry Hart][564]
[Milnes, Richard M.][634]
[Milton, John][223]
[Mimnermus][699]
[Miner, Charles][528]
[Molière][797]
Monnoye, Bernard de la, note[400]
[Montagu, Mary Wortley][350]
Montagu, Mary Wortley, note[461]
[Montaigne][774]
[Montgomery, James][496]
[Montgomery, Robert][610]
[Montrose, Marquis of][257]
[Moore, Clement C.][527]
[Moore, Edward][377]
[Moore, Thomas][518]
[More, Hannah][437]
More, Sir Thomas, note[30], [100]
Morell, Thomas, note[281]
[Morgan, M. H.][860]
[Morris, Charles][432]
[Morris, George P.][595]
[Morton, Thomas][457]
[Moss, Thomas][433]
[Motherwell, William][580]
[Muhlenberg, William A.][678]
[Mulock, Dinah M.][667]
[[xii]]Münster, Ernst F., note[807]
[Murphy, Arthur][393]
[Nairne, Lady][458]
[Napier, Sir W. F. P.][537]
Napoleon Bonaparte, note[811]
Napoleon, Louis, note[810]
[Nash, Thomas][861]
[Nelson, Horatio][446]
[Newton, Isaac][278]
[Noel, Thomas][683]
[Norris, John][281]
Northbrooke, note[17]
[Norton, Caroline E. S.][679]
[O'Hara, Kane][672]
[O'Hara, Theodore][681]
[O'Keefe, John][673]
[O'Kelley, Captain][855]
Oldham, John, note[366]
[Oldys, William][671]
Oliphant, Thomas, note[685]
[Omar Khayyám][768]
[O'Meara, Barry E.][675]
Orrery, Roger B., note[258]
Ortin, Job, note[359]
[Otway, Thomas][280]
[Overbury, Sir Thomas][193]
[Ovid][707]
Oxenstiern, note[195]
[Paine, Robert Treat][675]
[Paine, Thomas][431]
Paine, Thomas, note[605]
[Paley, William][673]
Panat, Chevalier de, note[811]
[Pardoe, Julia][680], [860]
[Parker, Martyn][176]
[Parker, Theodore][639]
[Parnell, Thomas][305]
[Pascal][798]
Pascal, note[169]
[Payne, J. Howard][568]
[Peele, George][24], [184], [530]
[Percival, James G.][677]
[Percy, Thomas][404]
[Perry, Oliver H.][676]
Persius, note[188], [305]
Petrarch, note[295]
[Phædrus][715]
[Philips, Ambrose][671]
[Philips, John][671]
[Phillips, Charles][677]
[Phillips, Wendell][641]
Philostratus, note[179]
[Pierpont, John][538]
[Pilpay][691]
[Pinckney, Charles C.][673]
Piozzi, Madame, note[560], [806]
[Pitt, Earl of Chatham][364]
[Pitt, William][453]
[Pitt, William (the younger)][510]
Plato, note[317]
[Plautus][700]
[Playford, John][684]
[Pliny the Elder][716]
[Pliny the Younger][748]
[Plutarch][722]
[Poe, Edgar A.][640]
[Pollok, Robert][588]
[Pomfret, John][289]
Pompadour, Madame de, note[205]
[Pope, Alexander][314]
[Pope, Walter][670]
[Porter, Horace][682]
[Porter, Mrs. David][682]
[Porteus, Beilby][425]
[Potter, Henry C.][668]
[Powell, Sir John][278]
[Praed, Winthrop M.][595]
[Priestley, Joseph][858]
Prior, James, note[412]
[Prior, Matthew][287]
Proclus, note[740], [811]
[Procter, Bryan W.][538]
[Publius Syrus][708]
[Pulteney, William][671]
[Quarles, Francis][203]
[Quincy, Josiah, Jr.][436]
[Quincy, Josiah][505]
[Quintilian][721]
Quitard, note[176]
[Rabelais][770]
Racine, note[391], [704]
[Radcliffe, Ann][456]
[Raleigh, Sir Walter][25]
[Ramsay, Allan][671]
[Randall, H. S.][859]
Ranke, Leopold, note[770]
[Ransford, Edwin][683]
Raspe, note[739]
[Ravenscroft, Thomas][683]
Ray, William, note[216]
[Rhodes, William B.][388]
Richards, Amelia B., note[533]
[Robinson, Mary][674]
[Rochester, Earl of][279]
[Rogers, Samuel][455]
[[xiii]][Roland, Madame][804]
[Roscommon, Earl of][278]
[Rousseau][802]
[Rowe, Nicholas][301]
[Roydon, Mathew][23]
[Rumbold, Richard][682]
[Russell, W. S.][860]
[Saint Augustine][767]
Saint Simon, note[189]
Sala, George A., note[463]
Sales, Saint Francis de, note[372]
[Salis, Von][805]
Sallust, note[167]
Salvandy, Comte de, note[811]
Sandys, Sir Edwin, note[314]
[Sargent, Epes][679]
[Savage, Richard][354]
Scarron, note[216]
Schelling, note[807]
[Schidoni][793]
[Schiller][804]
[Scott, Sir Walter][487]
Scott, Sir Walter, note[852]
[Scott, Winfield][676]
[Sears, Edmund H.][640]
Sebastiani, General, note[809]
[Sedaine, Michel J.][803]
[Sedley, Charles][671]
[Selden, John][194]
Selvaggi, note[271]
[Seneca][714]
Sévigné, Madame de, note[740], [801]
[Sewall, Harriet W.][680]
[Sewall, Jonathan M.][439]
Seward, Thomas, note[189]
[Seward, William H.][595]
[Sewell, George][671]
Shaftesbury, Earl of, note[578]
[Shakespeare, William][42]
Sharman, Julian, note[12]
[Sheffield][279]
[Shelley, Percy B.][564]
Shelley, Percy B., note[592]
[Shenstone, William][379]
Sheres, Sir Henry, note[13]
[Sherman, William T.][681]
[Sheridan, R. Brinsley][440]
[Shirley, James][209]
[Sidney, Algernon][264]
[Sidney, Sir Philip][34]
Silius Italicus, note[207]
[Sirmond, John][793]
Sismondi, note[807]
[Skelton, John][8]
Smart, Christopher, note[363]
[Smith, Adam][858]
[Smith, Alexander][667]
Smith, Captain John, note[495]
Smith, Edmund, note[333]
[Smith, Horace][517]
[Smith, James][510]
[Smith, Samuel F.][619]
[Smith, Seba][568]
[Smith, Sydney][459]
[Smollett, Tobias][392]
Smyth, William, note[391]
Socrates, note[63]
Somerville, William, note[314]
[Sophocles][696]
Sophocles, note[133]
Sorbienne, note[286]
South, Robert, note[310]
[Southerne, Thomas][282]
[Southey, Robert][506], [853]
Southwell, Robert, note[22]
Sparks, Jared, note[717]
[Spencer, Herbert][681]
[Spencer, William R.][464]
[Spenser, Edmund][27]
[Sprague, Charles][564]
Staël, Madame de, note[174], [807]
[Steele, Sir Richard][297]
[Steers, Fanny][682]
[Sterne, Laurence][378]
[Sternhold, Thomas][23]
[Stevens, George A.][672]
[Stiles, Ezra][859]
[Still, Bishop][22]
Stolberg, Christian, note[503]
[Story, Joseph][675]
[Stoughton, William][266]
[Stowell, Lord][437]
[Suckling, Sir John][256]
Suetonius, note[307]
[Sumner, Charles][859]
[Swift, Jonathan][289]
[Tacitus][747]
[Talfourd, Thomas N.][577]
[Taney, Roger B.][675]
[Tate and Brady][851]
[Taylor, Bayard][666]
[Taylor, Henry][594]
[Taylor, Jane and Ann][534]
Taylor, Jeremy, note[169], [193]
[Taylor, John][670]
Taylor, John, note[20]
[Temple, Sir William][266]
[Tennyson, Alfred][623]
[Terence][702]
[Tertullian][756]
[[xiv]][Theobald, Louis][352]
Theocritus, note[349]
[Theognis][694]
[Thomas, Frederick W.][679]
[Thomson, James][355]
[Thrale, Mrs.][432]
Thucydides, note[726]
[Thurlow, Lord][426]
Tibullus, note[106]
[Tickell, Thomas][313]
[Tillotson, John][266]
Titus, Colonel, note[352]
[Tobin, John][463]
Tolowiez, note[767]
[Toplady, Augustus M.][432]
[Tourneur, Cyril][34]
[Townley, James][380]
[Trumbull, John][439]
[Tucker, Dean][858]
[Tuke, Samuel][670]
[Tupper, Martin F.][640]
[Tusser, Thomas][20]
[Uhland, Johann L.][806]
[Unknown Authors][707]
[Usteri, J. M.][805]
Valerius Maximus, note[807]
[Vanbrugh, Sir John][684]
Van Buren, Martin, note[364]
[Vandyk, H. S.][678]
Varro, note[167]
[Vaughan, Henry][263]
[Vauvenargues][803]
Vegetius, note[425]
[Venning, Ralph][262]
[Villon][769]
Virgil, note[185], [720], [810]
Volney, note[592]
[Voltaire][800]
Voss, J. H., note[811]
[Wade, J. A.][594]
[Walker, William][265]
Wallace, Horace B., note[361]
[Waller, Edmund][219]
[Walpole, Horace][389]
Walpole, Horace, note[592]
[Walpole, Sir Robert][304]
Walpole, Sir Robert, note[389]
[Walton, Izaak][206]
[Warburton, Thomas][859]
[Warner, William][38]
[Ward, Thomas][857]
[Warton, Thomas][403]
[Washington, George][425]
[Watson, William][855]
[Watts, Isaac][301]
[Webster, Daniel][529]
[Webster, John][180]
[Welby, Amelia B.][681]
[Wellington, Duke of][463]
[Wells, William V.][858]
[Wesley, Charles][672]
[Wesley, John][359]
Whetstone, George, note[14]
Whewell, William, note[169]
White, Henry Kirke, note[592]
[Whittier, John G.][618]
[Wight, Rezin A.][854]
[Wilde, Richard H.][677]
[Willard, Emma][676]
[Williams, Helen M.][674]
Williams, Roger, note[208]
[Willis, Nathaniel P.][655]
Willis, Nathaniel P., note[580]
[Wilson, Alexander][860]
Wilson, John, note[558]
[Wilson, Mrs. C. B.][677]
Winslow, Edward, note[283]
[Winthrop, John][670]
[Winthrop, Robert C.][638]
[Wither, George][199]
[Wolcot, John][431]
[Wolfe, Charles][563]
[Wolfe, James][673]
[Woodworth, Samuel][537]
[Wordsworth, William][465]
[Wotton, Sir Henry][174]
[Wrother, Miss][683]
Wycherley, William, note[452]
Yalden, Thomas, note[181]
Yonge, Nicholas, note[711]
[Young, Edward][306]
Young, Sir John, note[177]
Zamoyski, Jan, note[810]
Zouch, Thomas, note[209]

[[xv]]

ANONYMOUS BOOKS CITED.

Page
Annals of Sporting[855]
Biographia Britannica, note[282]
Biographia Dramatica, note[347]
[Book of Common Prayer][850]
British Princes[685]
Cupid's Whirligig, note[446]
Deutsche Rechts Alterthümer[858]
Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys[856]
Encyclopædia Britannica, note[784]
[Gesta Romanorum][802]
Health to the Gentle Profession of Serving-men, note[360]
History of the Family of Courtenay, note[802]
Letters of Junius[688]
Marriage of Wit and Wisdom[859]
Menagiana, note[793]
New England Primer[687]
Pierre Patelin, note[771]
Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum, note[293]
Return from Parnassus[684]
Spectator[857]
[The Bible][812]
The Examiner, May 31, 1829, note[313]
The Mock Romance, note[217]
The Nation, note[532]
The Skylark[854]
Wheeler's Magazine, note[690]

[[1]]

FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS.

GEOFFREY CHAUCER.  1328-1400.

(From the text of Tyrwhitt.)

Whanne that April with his shoures sote

The droughte of March hath perced to the rote.

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 1.

And smale foules maken melodie,

That slepen alle night with open eye,

So priketh hem nature in hir corages;

Than longen folk to gon on pilgrimages.

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 9.

And of his port as meke as is a mayde.

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 69.

He was a veray parfit gentil knight.

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 72.

He coude songes make, and wel endite.

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 95.

Ful wel she sange the service devine,

Entuned in hire nose ful swetely;

And Frenche she spake ful fayre and fetisly,

After the scole of Stratford atte bowe,

For Frenche of Paris was to hire unknowe.

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 122.

A Clerk ther was of Oxenforde also.

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 287.

For him was lever han at his beddes hed

A twenty bokes, clothed in black or red,

Of Aristotle, and his philosophie,

Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie.

But all be that he was a philosophre,

Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 295.

[[2]]

And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 310.

Nowher so besy a man as he ther n' as,

And yet he semed besier than he was.

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 323.

His studie was but litel on the Bible.

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 440.

For gold in phisike is a cordial;

Therefore he loved gold in special.

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 445.

Wide was his parish, and houses fer asonder.

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 493.

This noble ensample to his shepe he yaf,—

That first he wrought, and afterwards he taught.

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 498.

But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve,

He taught; but first he folwed it himselve.

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 529.

And yet he had a thomb of gold parde.[2:1]

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 565.

Who so shall telle a tale after a man,

He moste reherse, as neighe as ever he can,

Everich word, if it be in his charge,

All speke he never so rudely and so large;

Or elles he moste tellen his tale untrewe,

Or feinen thinges, or finden wordes newe.

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 733.

For May wol have no slogardie a-night.

The seson priketh every gentil herte,

And maketh him out of his slepe to sterte.

Canterbury Tales. The Knightes Tale. Line 1044.

That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.[2:2]

Canterbury Tales. The Knightes Tale. Line 1524.

Up rose the sonne, and up rose Emelie.

Canterbury Tales. The Knightes Tale. Line 2275.

[[3]]

Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.

Canterbury Tales. The Knightes Tale. Line 2408.

To maken vertue of necessite.[3:1]

Canterbury Tales. The Knightes Tale. Line 3044.

And brought of mighty ale a large quart.

Canterbury Tales. The Milleres Tale. Line 3497.

Ther n' is no werkman whatever he be,

That may both werken wel and hastily.[3:2]

This wol be done at leisure parfitly.[3:3]

Canterbury Tales. The Marchantes Tale. Line 585.

Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.[3:4]

Canterbury Tales. The Reves Prologue. Line 3880.

The gretest clerkes ben not the wisest men.

Canterbury Tales. The Reves Tale. Line 4051.

So was hire joly whistle wel ywette.

Canterbury Tales. The Reves Tale. Line 4153.

In his owen grese I made him frie.[3:5]

Canterbury Tales. The Reves Tale. Line 6069.

And for to see, and eek for to be seie.[3:6]

Canterbury Tales. The Wif of Bathes Prologue. Line 6134.

[[4]]

I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke,

That hath but on hole for to sterten to.[4:1]

Canterbury Tales. The Wif of Bathes Prologue. Line 6154.

Loke who that is most vertuous alway,

Prive and apert, and most entendeth ay

To do the gentil dedes that he can,

And take him for the gretest gentilman.

Canterbury Tales. The Wif of Bathes Tale. Line 6695.

That he is gentil that doth gentil dedis.[4:2]

Canterbury Tales. The Wif of Bathes Tale. Line 6752.

This flour of wifly patience.

Canterbury Tales. The Clerkes Tale. Part v. Line 8797.

They demen gladly to the badder end.

Canterbury Tales. The Squieres Tale. Line 10538.

Therefore behoveth him a ful long spone,

That shall eat with a fend.[4:3]

Canterbury Tales. The Squieres Tale. Line 10916.

Fie on possession,

But if a man be vertuous withal.

Canterbury Tales. The Frankeleines Prologue. Line 10998.

Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.

Canterbury Tales. The Frankeleines Tale. Line 11789.

Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.[4:4]

Canterbury Tales. The Monkes Tale. Line 1449.

[[5]]

Mordre wol out, that see we day by day.[5:1]

Canterbury Tales. The Nonnes Preestes Tale. Line 15058.

But all thing which that shineth as the gold

Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.[5:2]

Canterbury Tales. The Chanones Yemannes Tale. Line 16430.

The firste vertue, sone, if thou wilt lere,

Is to restreine and kepen wel thy tonge.

Canterbury Tales. The Manciples Tale. Line 17281.

The proverbe saith that many a smale maketh a grate.[5:3]

Canterbury Tales. Persones Tale.

Of harmes two the lesse is for to cheese.[5:4]

Troilus and Creseide. Book ii. Line 470.

Right as an aspen lefe she gan to quake.

Troilus and Creseide. Book ii. Line 1201.

For of fortunes sharpe adversite,

The worst kind of infortune is this,—

A man that hath been in prosperite,

And it remember whan it passed is.

Troilus and Creseide. Book iii. Line 1625.

[[6]]

He helde about him alway, out of drede,

A world of folke.

Troilus and Creseide. Book iii. Line 1721.

One eare it heard, at the other out it went.[6:1]

Troilus and Creseide. Book iv. Line 435.

Eke wonder last but nine deies never in toun.[6:2]

Troilus and Creseide. Book iv. Line 525.

I am right sorry for your heavinesse.

Troilus and Creseide. Book v. Line 146.

Go, little booke! go, my little tragedie!

Troilus and Creseide. Book v. Line 1798.

Your duty is, as ferre as I can gesse.

The Court of Love. Line 178.

The lyfe so short, the craft so long to lerne,[6:3]

Th' assay so hard, so sharpe the conquering.

The Assembly of Fowles. Line 1.

For out of the old fieldes, as men saithe,

Cometh al this new corne fro yere to yere;

And out of old bookes, in good faithe,

Cometh al this new science that men lere.

The Assembly of Fowles. Line 22.

Nature, the vicar of the Almightie Lord.

The Assembly of Fowles. Line 379.

O little booke, thou art so unconning,

How darst thou put thy-self in prees for drede?

The Flower and the Leaf. Line 59.

Of all the floures in the mede,

Than love I most these floures white and rede,

Soch that men callen daisies in our toun.

Prologue of the Legend of Good Women. Line 41.

That well by reason men it call may

The daisie, or els the eye of the day,

The emprise, and floure of floures all.

Prologue of the Legend of Good Women. Line 183.

For iii may keep a counsel if twain be away.[6:4]

The Ten Commandments of Love.