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

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Then marble soften'd into life grew warm,

And yielding, soft metal flow'd to human form.[329:3]

Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 147.

Who says in verse what others say in prose.

Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 202.

Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join

The varying verse, the full resounding line,

The long majestic march, and energy divine.

Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book ii. Line 267.

E'en copious Dryden wanted or forgot