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

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Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book i. Line 103.

Above all Greek, above all Roman fame.[329:2]

Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 26.

Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.

Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 35.

The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease.

Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 108.

One simile that solitary shines

In the dry desert of a thousand lines.

Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 111.