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

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Essay on Criticism. Part ii. Line 166.

Yet let not each gay turn thy rapture move;

For fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Essay on Criticism. Part ii. Line 190.

But let a lord once own the happy lines,

How the wit brightens! how the style refines!

Essay on Criticism. Part ii. Line 220.

Envy will merit as its shade pursue,

But like a shadow proves the substance true.

Essay on Criticism. Part ii. Line 266.