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

by Unknown

Virtus sui gloria.

"Think that day lost whose descending sun

Views from thy hand no noble action done."

Bobart died about 1726. He was a son of the celebrated botanist of that name. The verses are given as an early instance of their use.

[688:3] This is found in Staniford's "Art of Reading," third edition, p. 27 (Boston, 1803).

[688:4] See Burke, page [412].

[688:5] See Choate, page [588].

[688:6] See Clarendon, page [255].

[690:1] These lines having been incorrectly printed in a London publication, we have been favoured by the author with an authentic copy of them.—Wheeler's Magazine, vol. i. p. 244. (Winchester, England, 1828.)

[690:2] This poem entire may be found in Rossiter Johnson's "Famous Single and Fugitive Poems."