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

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But he who is in battle slain

Can never rise and fight again.[403:1]

The Art of Poetry on a New Plan (1761). Vol. ii. p. 147.

One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title-page, another works away the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.[403:2]

The Bee. No. 1, Oct. 6, 1759.

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.[403:3]

The Bee. No. iii. Oct. 20, 1759.

Footnotes

[394:1] See Garth, page [295].

Crabbe: Tales of the Hall, book iii. Graves: The Epicure.