He [Steele] was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.—Macaulay: Review of Aikin's Life of Addison.
Temple was a man of the world among men of letters, a man of letters among men of the world.—Macaulay: Review of Life and Writings of Sir William Temple.
Greswell in his "Memoirs of Politian" says that Sannazarius himself, inscribing to this lady [Cassandra Marchesia] an edition of his Italian Poems, terms her "delle belle eruditissima, delle erudite bellissima" (most learned of the fair; fairest of the learned).
Qui stultis videri eruditi volunt stulti eruditis videntur (Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish).—Quintilian, x. 7. 22.
[333:1] See Dryden, page [273].
[333:2] Priests, altars, victims, swam before my sight.—Edmund Smith: Phædra and Hippolytus, act i. sc. 1.
[333:3] See Addison, page [300].
"Tenez voilà," dit-elle, "à chacun une écaille,
Des sottises d'autrui nous vivons au Palais;