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

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Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.[323:4]

Essay on Criticism. Part ii. Line 53.

True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd,

What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.

Essay on Criticism. Part ii. Line 97.

Words are like leaves; and where they most abound,

Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.

Essay on Criticism. Part ii. Line 109.

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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style,