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

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Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.[277:8]

Amphitryon. Act iii. Sc. 1.

The true Amphitryon.[277:9]

Amphitryon. Act iv. Sc. 1.

The spectacles of books.

Essay on Dramatic Poetry.

Footnotes

[267:1] Above all Greek, above all Roman fame.—Pope: epistle i. book ii. line 26.

[267:2] See Fuller, page [221].

[267:3] No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.—Aristotle: Problem, sect. 30.