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

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Low ambition and the thirst of praise.[414:1]

Table Talk. Line 591.

Made poetry a mere mechanic art.

Table Talk. Line 654.

Nature, exerting an unwearied power,

Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower;

Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads

The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads.

Table Talk. Line 690.

Lights of the world, and stars of human race.