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

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Believe a woman or an epitaph,

Or any other thing that 's false, before

You trust in critics.

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Line 75.

Perverts the Prophets and purloins the Psalms.

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Line 326.

Oh, Amos Cottle! Phœbus! what a name!

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Line 399.

So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain,

No more through rolling clouds to soar again,