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

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And Quarles is sav'd by beauties not his own.

The Dunciad. Book i. Line 139.

How index-learning turns no student pale,

Yet holds the eel of science by the tail.

The Dunciad. Book i. Line 279.

And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke.

The Dunciad. Book ii. Line 34.

Another, yet the same.[331:1]

The Dunciad. Book iii. Line 90.

Till Peter's keys some christen'd Jove adorn,