These writers were contemporaries. Did the same thought occur to each independently, or did one borrow from the other?
In Dr. Johnson’s epitaph on Goldsmith, in Westminster Abbey, occurs the expression, “Nihil tetigit quod non ornavit.”
The Archbishop of Canterbury, in drawing a comparison between the eloquence of Cicero and that of Demosthenes, says, “He adorns everything he touches.”
Authority melts from me.
“Antony and Cleopatra,” iii, 2.
Authority forgets a dying king.
Tennyson, “Mort d’Arthur.”
Woe to thee O land when thy king is a child.
Ecclesiastes, x, 16.
Woe to the land that’s governed by a child.