Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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[224:1] See Book iv. line 75.

[224:2] Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air.—Gray: The Bard, i. 2, line 6.

[226:1] Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the worse appear the better reason.—Diogenes Laertius: Socrates, v.

[226:2] Our hope is loss, our hope but sad despair.—Shakespeare: Henry VI. part iii. act ii. sc. 3.

[227:1] Rubente dextera.—Horace: Ode i. 2, 2.

[230:1] Compare great things with small.—Virgil: Eclogues, i. 24; Georgics, iv. 176. Cowley: The Motto. Dryden: Ovid, Metamorphoses, book i. line 727. Tickell: Poem on Hunting. Pope: Windsor Forest.

[231:1] Ye little stars! hide your diminished rays.—Pope: Moral Essays, epistle iii. line 282.

[232:1] See Herrick, page [203].

[232:2] Necessity is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves.—William Pitt: Speech on the India Bill, November, 1783.

[234:1] When unadorned, adorned the most.—Thomson: Autumn, line 204.