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

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[394:2] See Pope, page [329].

[395:1] The character of the French.

[395:2] See Dryden, page [277].

[395:3] When Davies asked for an explanation of "Luke's iron crown," Goldsmith referred him to a book called "Géographie Curieuse," and added that by "Damien's bed of steel" he meant the rack.—Granger: Letters, (1805), p. 52.

[396:1] See Pope, page [329].

C'est un verre qui luit,

Qu'un souffle peut détruire, et qu'un souffle a produit

(It is a shining glass, which a breath may destroy, and which a breath has produced).—De Caux (comparing the world to his hour-glass).

[397:1] See Dryden, page [269].

[397:2] A cap by night, a stocking all the day—Goldsmith: A Description of an Author's Bed-Chamber.