The line quoted (p. 247.) as having been applied by Twining to Pope's Homer, is from Tibullus, iii. 6. 56.
P. J. F. Gantillon
"A fellow feeling makes us wond'rous kind,"
is to be found in the epilogue written and spoken by Garrick on quitting the stage, 1776.[[2]]
A parallel passage appears in Troilus and Cressida, Act III. Sc. 3.:
"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
Newburiensis.
The following lines, and the accompanying paraphrase, probably those inquired after by X. Y., are in Davison's Poems, or a Poetical Rhapsody (p. 50., 4th impression, 1621), where they form the third "device." I do not know who the writer was.
"Quid plumâ lævius? Pulvis. Quid pulvere? Ventus.
Quid vento? Mulier. Quid muliere? Nihil."