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

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But who pretender is, or who is king,—

God bless us all!—that 's quite another thing.

To an Officer of the Army, extempore.

Take time enough: all other graces

Will soon fill up their proper places.[351:1]

Advice to Preach Slow.

Some say, compar'd to Bononcini,

That Mynheer Handel 's but a ninny;

Others aver that he to Handel

Is scarcely fit to hold a candle.