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

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Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

Essay on Criticism. Part ii. Line 126.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold,

Alike fantastic if too new or old:

Be not the first by whom the new are tried,

Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Essay on Criticism. Part ii. Line 133.

Some to church repair,

Not for the doctrine, but the music there.

These equal syllables alone require,