FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS:
A COLLECTION OF
PASSAGES, PHRASES, AND PROVERBS
TRACED TO THEIR SOURCES IN
ANCIENT AND MODERN LITERATURE
BY JOHN BARTLETT.
"I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own."
NINTH EDITION.
BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY. 1905.
Copyright, 1875, 1882, 1891, 1903, BY JOHN BARTLETT.
UNIVERSITY PRESS: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.
THIS EDITION IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE ASSISTANT EDITOR,
REZIN A. WIGHT.
PREFACE.
"Out of the old fieldes cometh al this new corne fro yere to yere," And out of the fresh woodes cometh al these new flowres here.
THE small thin volume, the first to bear the title of this collection, after passing through eight editions, each enlarged, now culminates in its ninth,--and with it, closes its tentative life.
This extract from the Preface of the fourth edition is applicable to the present one:--
"It is not easy to determine in all cases the degree of familiarity that may belong to phrases and sentences which present themselves for admission; for what is familiar to one class of readers may be quite new to another. Many maxims of the most famous writers of our language, and numberless curious and happy turns from orators and poets, have knocked at the door, and it was hard to deny them. But to admit these simply on their own merits, without assurance that the general reader would readily recognize them as old friends, was aside from the purpose of this collection. Still, it has been thought better to incur the risk of erring on the side of fulness."
With the many additions to the English writers, the present edition contains selections from the French, and from the wit and wisdom of the ancients. A few passages have been admitted without a claim to familiarity, but solely on the ground of coincidence of thought.
I am under great obligations to M. H. MORGAN, Ph. D., of Harvard University, for the translation of Marcus Aurelius, and for the translation and selections from the Greek tragic writers. I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. DANIEL W. WILDER, of Kansas, for the quotations from Pilpay, with contributions from Diogenes Laertius, Montaigne, Burton, and Pope's Homer; to Dr. WILLIAM J. ROLFE for quotations from Robert Browning; to Mr. JAMES W. MCINTYRE for quotations from Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Mrs. Browning, Robert Browning, and Tennyson. And I have incurred other obligations to friends for here a little and there a little.
It gives me pleasure to acknowledge the great assistance I have received from Mr. A. W. STEVENS, the accomplished reader of the University Press, as this work was passing through the press.
In withdrawing from this very agreeable pursuit, I beg to offer my sincere thanks to all who have assisted me either in the way of suggestions or by contributions; and especially to those lovers of this subsidiary literature for their kind appreciation of former editions.
Accepted by scholars as an authoritative book of reference, it has grown with its growth in public estimation with each reissue. Of the last two editions forty thousand copies were printed, apart from the English reprints. The present enlargement of text equals three hundred and fifty pages of the previous edition, and the index is increased with upwards of ten thousand lines.
CAMBRIDGE, March, 1891.
INDEX OF AUTHORS.
PAGE ADAMS, CHARLES F. 678 ADAMS, JOHN 429 JOHN, note 529, 530 ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY 312, 458 ADAMS, SARAH FLOWER 606 ADDISON, JOSEPH 297 ADY, THOMAS 684 AESCHINES 810 AESCHYLUS 695 AGRICOLA, note 686 AKENSIDE, MARK 391 ALANUS DE INSULIS, note 5 ALDRICH, JAMES 639 ALI BEN TALEB 767 ALLEN, ELIZABETH A. 668 ALPHONSO THE WISE 768 AMELIA, PRINCESS 676 AMES, FISHER, note 283 ARCHILOCHUS, note 216 ARIOSTO, note 552 ARISTIDES, note 438 ARISTOPHANES, note 731 ARISTOTLE, note 267, 853 ARMSTRONG, JOHN 672 ARNOLD, MATTHEW 665 ARNOLD, SAMUEL J., note 388 ARRIANUS, note 704 ATHENAEUS 766 AVONMORE, LORD, note 531
BACON, FRANCIS 164 BACON, LADY ANNE, note 7 BAILEY, PHILIP JAMES 654 BAILLIE, JOANNA 674 BANCROFT, GEORGE, note 531 BARBAULD, MRS. 433 BARERE, BERTRAND 804 BARHAM, R. H. 676 BARKER, THEODORE L. 682 BARNFIELD, RICHARD 175 BARRETT, EATON S. 676 BARRINGTON, GEORGE 445 BARROW, ISAAC, note 299 BARRY, MICHAEL J. 680 BASSE, WILLIAM, note 179 BAXTER, RICHARD 670 BAYARD, CHEVALIER, note 21 BAYLE, PETER, note 604 BAYLY, T. HAYNES 581 BEATTIE, JAMES 428 BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER 197 BEAUMONT, FRANCIS 196 BEAUMONT, JOHN, note 478 BEE, BERNARD E. 860 BELL, ROBERT, note 330 BELLAMY, G. W. 682 BELLINGHAUSEN, VON MUeNCH 806 BENTHAM, JEREMY 856 BENTLEY, RICHARD 284 BENTON, THOMAS H. 858 BERKELEY, BISHOP 312 BERNERS, JULIANA, note 182 BERRY, DOROTHY, note 484 BERTAUT, JEAN, note 100 BERTIN, MADEMOISELLE, note 811 BETTELHEIM, A. S., note 170 BICKERSTAFF, ISAAC 427 BLACKER, COLONEL 588 BLACKMORE, RICHARD, note 685 BLACKSTONE, SIR WILLIAM 392 BLAIR, ROBERT 354 BLAMIRE, SUSANNA 673 BLAND, ROBERT, note 191 BOBART, JACOB, note 688 BODINUS, note 418 BODLEY, SIR THOMAS 368 BOETHIUS, note 618 BOILEAU 799 BOLINGBROKE 304 BOOTH, BARTON 306 BORBONIUS, note 321 BOURDILLON, FRANCIS W. 669 BRACTON 857 BRAINARD, JOHN G. C. 677 BRAMSTON, JAMES 352 BREEN, H. H., note 409 BRERETON, JANE 312 BRETON, NICHOLAS, note 33 BROMLEY, ISAAC H. 681 BROOKE, LORD 35 BROUGHAM, LORD 527 LORD, note 426 BROWN, JOHN 380 BROWN, TOM 286 BROWNE, SIR THOMAS 217 BROWNE, WILLIAM 201 BROWNING, ELIZABETH B. 620 BROWNING, ROBERT 643 BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN 572 BRYDGES, SIR S. EGERTON 674 BUFFON, note 186 BULFINCH, SAMUEL G., note 488 BUNN, ALFRED 561 BUNSEN, CARL JOSIAS, note 770 BUNYAN, JOHN 265 BURCHARD, SAMUEL D. 679 BURKE, EDMUND 407 BURNET, GILBERT, note 610 BURNS, ROBERT 446 BURTON, ROBERT 185 BUSSY DE RABUTIN, note 286 BUTLER, SAMUEL 209 SAMUEL, note 361 BYRD, WILLIAM, note 22 BYROM, JOHN 351 BYRON, LORD 539
CALHOUN, JOHN C. 529 CALLIMACHUS 496 CAMPBELL, LORD, note 418, 528 CAMPBELL, THOMAS 512 CAMDEN, WILLIAM 684 CAMBRONNE 810 CANNING, GEORGE 464 CAREW, THOMAS 200 CAREY, HENRY 285 CARLYLE, THOMAS 577 CARPENTER, JOSEPH E. 680 CARRUTHERS, ROBERT, note 528 CATINAT, MARSHAL, note 740 CATULLUS, note 306 CENTLIVRE, SUSANNAH 671 CERVANTES 784 CHANNING, WILLIAM E. 655 CHAPMAN, GEORGE 35 CHARLES I., note 398 CHARRON, note 317 CHASE, SALMON P. 619 CHAUCER, GEOFFREY 1 CHERRY, ANDREW 453 CHESTERFIELD, EARL OF 352 CHILD, LYDIA MARIA 596 CHOATE, RUFUS 588 CHORLEY, HENRY F. 667 CHRISTY, DAVID 854 CHURCH, BENJAMIN, note 513 CHURCHILL, CHARLES 412 CIBBER, COLLEY 295 COLLEY, note 294 CICERO 705 CLARENDON, EDWARD HYDE 255 CLARKE, JOHN, note 568 CLARKE, MACDONALD 582 CLAY, HENRY, note 505 CLEVELAND, GROVER 669 CODRINGTON, CHRISTOPHER, note 295 COKE, SIR EDWARD 24 COLERIDGE, HARTLEY 677 COLERIDGE, S. TAYLOR 498 S. TAYLOR, note 481 COLLINS, WILLIAM 389 COLMAN, GEORGE 454 COLTON, C. C. 675 CONGREVE, WILLIAM 294 CONSTABLE, HENRY, note 484 CONSTANT, HENRY B. 806 COOK, ELIZA 654 COOPER, J. FENIMORE, note 580 CORNUEL, MADAME, note 740 COTTON, NATHANIEL 362 COWLEY, ABRAHAM 260 COWPER, WILLIAM 413 CRABBE, GEORGE 443 CRANCH, CHRISTOPHER P. 653 CRANFIELD, note 210 CRASHAW, RICHARD 258 CRAWFORD, ANNE 673 CRISTYNE, note 12 CROCKETT, DAVID 852 CROKER, JOHN W., note 284 CUNNINGHAM, ALLAN 537 CURRAN, JOHN P. 855 CURTIUS, QUINTUS, note 25