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

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The Critic. Act iii. Sc. 1.

You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.

School for Scandal. Act i. Sc. 1.

Here is the whole set! a character dead at every word.

School for Scandal. Act ii. Sc. 2.

I leave my character behind me.

School for Scandal. Act ii. Sc. 2.

Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen;

Here 's to the widow of fifty;

Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant quean,