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

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Contents

  1. Preface
  2. Index of Authors
  3. Anonymous Books Cited
  4. Thomas À Kempis. 1380-1471
  5. John Skelton. Circa 1460-1529
  6. John Heywood.[8:7] Circa 1565
  7. Thomas Tusser. Circa 1515-1580
  8. Edward Dyer. Circa 1540-1607
  9. Bishop Still (John). 1543-1607
  10. Thomas Sternhold. Circa 1549
  11. Mathew Roydon. Circa 1586
  12. Sir Edward Coke. 1549-1634
  13. George Peele. 1552-1598
  14. Sir Walter Raleigh. 1552-1618
  15. Edmund Spenser. 1553-1599
  16. Richard Hooker. 1553-1600
  17. John Lyly. Circa 1553-1601
  18. Sir Philip Sidney. 1554-1586
  19. George Chapman. 1557-1634
  20. William Warner. 1558-1609
  21. Samuel Daniel. 1562-1619
  22. Michael Drayton. 1563-1631
  23. Christopher Marlowe. 1565-1593
  24. William Shakespeare. 1564-1616
  25. Francis Bacon. 1561-1626
  26. Thomas Middleton. —— -1626
  27. Sir Henry Wotton. 1568-1639
  28. Sir John Davies. 1570-1626
  29. Dr. John Donne. 1573-1631
  30. Ben Jonson.[177:4] 1573-1637
  31. John Webster. —— -1638
  32. Thomas Dekker. —— -1641
  33. Bishop Hall. 1574-1656
  34. John Fletcher. 1576-1625
  35. Robert Burton. 1576-1640
  36. Philip Massinger. 1584-1640
  37. Thomas Heywood. —— -1649
  38. John Selden. 1584-1654
  39. Francis Beaumont. 1586-1616
  40. (Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher.)
  41. George Wither. 1588-1667
  42. Thomas Hobbes. 1588-1679
  43. Thomas Carew. 1589-1639
  44. Robert Herrick. 1591-1674
  45. Francis Quarles. 1592-1644
  46. George Herbert. 1593-1632
  47. Izaak Walton. 1593-1683
  48. James Shirley. 1596-1666
  49. Samuel Butler. 1600-1680
  50. Sir William Davenant. 1605-1668
  51. Sir Thomas Browne. 1605-1682
  52. Edmund Waller. 1605-1687
  53. Thomas Fuller. 1608-1661
  54. John Milton. 1608-1674
  55. Sir John Suckling. 1609-1641
  56. Marquis of Montrose. 1612-1650
  57. Sir John Denham. 1615-1668
  58. Richard Crashaw. Circa 1616-1650
  59. Richard Lovelace. 1618-1658
  60. Abraham Cowley. 1618-1667
  61. Andrew Marvell. 1620-1678
  62. Joseph Henshaw.[263:1] —— -1678
  63. Henry Vaughan. 1621-1695
  64. Algernon Sidney. 1622-1683
  65. John Bunyan. 1628-1688
  66. Sir William Temple. 1628-1699
  67. John Dryden. 1631-1701
  68. Earl of Roscommon. 1633-1684
  69. Isaac Newton. 1642-1727
  70. Earl of Rochester. 1647-1680
  71. Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire. 1649-1720
  72. Thomas Otway. 1651-1685
  73. Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun. 1653-1716
  74. Nathaniel Lee. 1655-1692
  75. John Norris. 1657-1711
  76. Mathew Henry.[282:4] 1662-1714
  77. Richard Bentley. 1662-1742
  78. Henry Carey. 1663-1743
  79. Daniel Defoe. 1663-1731
  80. Tom Brown. 1663-1704
  81. Matthew Prior. 1664-1721
  82. John Pomfret. 1667-1703
  83. Jonathan Swift. 1667-1745
  84. William Congreve. 1670-1729
  85. Samuel Garth.[295:3] 1670-1719
  86. Colley Cibber. 1671-1757
  87. Sir Richard Steele. 1671-1729
  88. Joseph Addison. 1672-1719
  89. Nicholas Rowe. 1673-1718
  90. Isaac Watts. 1674-1748
  91. Sir Robert Walpole. 1676-1745
  92. Viscount Bolingbroke. 1678-1751
  93. George Farquhar. 1678-1707
  94. Thomas Parnell. 1679-1717
  95. Edward Young. 1684-1765
  96. Bishop Berkeley. 1684-1753
  97. Jane Brereton. 1685-1740
  98. Aaron Hill. 1685-1750
  99. Thomas Tickell. 1686-1740
  100. Samuel Madden. 1687-1765
  101. Alexander Pope. 1688-1744
  102. John Gay. 1688-1732
  103. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. 1690-1762
  104. Charles Macklin. 1690-1797
  105. John Byrom. 1691-1763
  106. James Bramston. —— -1744
  107. Earl of Chesterfield. 1694-1773
  108. Matthew Green. 1696-1737
  109. Richard Savage. 1698-1743
  110. Robert Blair. 1699-1747
  111. James Thomson. 1700-1748
  112. John Dyer. 1700-1758
  113. Philip Doddridge. 1702-1751
  114. John Wesley. 1703-1791
  115. Benjamin Franklin.[359:4] 1706-1790
  116. Nathaniel Cotton. 1707-1788
  117. Henry Fielding. 1707-1754
  118. William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. 1708-1778
  119. Samuel Johnson. 1709-1784
  120. Lord Lyttleton. 1709-1773
  121. Edward Moore. 1712-1757
  122. Laurence Sterne. 1713-1768
  123. William Shenstone. 1714-1763
  124. John Brown. 1715-1766
  125. James Townley. 1715-1778
  126. Thomas Gray. 1716-1771
  127. David Garrick. 1716-1779
  128. William B. Rhodes. Circa 1790
  129. Horace Walpole. 1717-1797
  130. William Collins. 1720-1756
  131. Mark Akenside. 1721-1770
  132. Tobias Smollett. 1721-1771
  133. Sir William Blackstone. 1723-1780
  134. John Home. 1724-1808
  135. Oliver Goldsmith. 1728-1774
  136. Thomas Warton. 1728-1790
  137. Thomas Percy. 1728-1811
  138. Edmund Burke. 1729-1797
  139. Charles Churchill. 1731-1764
  140. William Cowper. 1731-1800
  141. Erasmus Darwin. 1731-1802
  142. Beilby Porteus. 1731-1808
  143. George Washington. 1732-1799
  144. W. J. Mickle. 1734-1788
  145. John Langhorne. 1735-1779
  146. Isaac Bickerstaff. 1735-1787
  147. James Beattie. 1735-1803
  148. John Adams. 1735-1826
  149. Patrick Henry. 1736-1799
  150. Edward Gibbon. 1737-1794
  151. Thomas Paine. 1737-1809
  152. John Wolcot. 1738-1819
  153. Mrs. Thrale. 1739-1821
  154. Charles Morris. 1739-1832
  155. Thomas Moss. 1740-1808
  156. Mrs. Barbauld. 1743-1825
  157. Thomas Jefferson. 1743-1826
  158. Josiah Quincy, Jr. 1744-1775
  159. Charles Dibdin. 1745-1814
  160. Hannah More. 1745-1833
  161. Sir William Jones. 1746-1794
  162. John Logan. 1748-1788
  163. John Edwin. 1749-1790
  164. John Trumbull. 1750-1831
  165. Richard Brinsley Sheridan. 1751-1816
  166. George Crabbe. 1754-1832
  167. Horatio Nelson. 1758-1805
  168. Robert Burns. 1759-1796
  169. William Pitt. 1759-1806
  170. George Colman, the Younger. 1762-1836
  171. Samuel Rogers. 1763-1855
  172. John Ferriar. 1764-1815
  173. Robert Hall. 1764-1831
  174. Thomas Morton. 1764-1838
  175. Sir James Mackintosh. 1765-1832
  176. Lady Nairne. 1766-1845
  177. John Quincy Adams. 1767-1848
  178. David Everett. 1769-1813
  179. Sydney Smith. 1769-1845
  180. J. Hookham Frere. 1769-1846
  181. Duke of Wellington. 1769-1852
  182. John Tobin. 1770-1804
  183. George Canning. 1770-1827
  184. Joseph Hopkinson. 1770-1842
  185. William Wordsworth.[465:1] 1770-1850
  186. Sir Walter Scott. 1771-1832
  187. James Montgomery. 1771-1854
  188. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 1772-1834
  189. Josiah Quincy. 1772-1864
  190. Robert Southey. 1774-1843
  191. Charles Lamb. 1775-1834
  192. James Smith. 1775-1839
  193. William Pitt. —— -1840
  194. Walter Savage Landor. 1775-1864
  195. Thomas Campbell. 1777-1844
  196. Henry Clay. 1777-1852
  197. F. S. Key. 1779-1843
  198. Horace Smith. 1779-1849
  199. Thomas Moore. 1779-1852
  200. Lord Denman. 1779-1854
  201. Clement C. Moore. 1779-1863
  202. Lord Brougham. 1779-1868
  203. John C. Calhoun. 1782-1850
  204. Daniel Webster. 1782-1852
  205. Jane Taylor. 1783-1824
  206. Reginald Heber. 1783-1826
  207. Washington Irving. 1783-1859
  208. Leigh Hunt. 1784-1859
  209. Samuel Woodworth. 1785-1842
  210. Allan Cunningham. 1785-1842
  211. Sir W. F. P. Napier. 1785-1860
  212. John Pierpont. 1785-1866
  213. Bryan W. Procter. 1787-1874
  214. Lord Byron 1788-1824
  215. Alfred Bunn. 1790-1860
  216. Fitz-Greene Halleck. 1790-1867
  217. Charles Wolfe. 1791-1823
  218. Charles Sprague. 1791-1875
  219. Percy Bysshe Shelley. 1792-1822
  220. J. Howard Payne. 1792-1852
  221. Seba Smith. 1792-1868
  222. John Keble. 1792-1866
  223. Felicia D. Hemans. 1794-1835
  224. Edward Everett. 1794-1865
  225. William Cullen Bryant. 1794-1878
  226. Joseph Rodman Drake. 1795-1820
  227. John Keats. 1795-1821
  228. Thomas Noon Talfourd. 1795-1854
  229. Thomas Carlyle. 1795-1881
  230. Thomas Haynes Bayly. 1797-1839
  231. Samuel Lover. 1797-1868
  232. Thomas Hood. 1798-1845
  233. George Linley. 1798-1865
  234. Robert Pollok. 1799-1827
  235. Rufus Choate. 1799-1859
  236. Thomas K. Hervey. 1799-1859
  237. Thomas B. Macaulay. 1800-1859
  238. J. A. Wade. 1800-1875
  239. Sir Henry Taylor. 1800-18—
  240. W. M. Praed. 1802-1839
  241. George P. Morris. 1802-1864
  242. Lydia Maria Child. 1802-1880
  243. Douglas Jerrold. 1803-1857
  244. Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1803-1882
  245. William Lloyd Garrison. 1804-1879
  246. Mary Howitt. 1804-1888
  247. Edward Bulwer Lytton. 1805-1873
  248. Benjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield). 1805-1881
  249. Robert Montgomery. 1807-1855
  250. Charles Jefferys. 1807-1865
  251. Lady Dufferin. 1807-1867
  252. Henry W. Longfellow. 1807-1882
  253. John G. Whittier. 1807- ——
  254. Salmon P. Chase. 1808-1873
  255. Samuel Francis Smith. 1808- ——
  256. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 1809-1861
  257. Abraham Lincoln. 1809-1865
  258. Charles Darwin. 1809-1882
  259. Alfred Tennyson. 1809- ——
  260. Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton). 1809-1885
  261. Oliver Wendell Holmes. 1809- ——
  262. Robert C. Winthrop. 1809- ——
  263. James Aldrich. 1810-1856
  264. Theodore Parker. 1810-1860
  265. Edgar A. Poe. 1811-1849
  266. Wendell Phillips. 1811-1884
  267. Frances Anne Kemble. 1811- ——
  268. Alfred Domett. 1811- ——
  269. Julia A. Fletcher (Now Mrs. Carney)
  270. Austen H. Layard. —— -1894
  271. Robert Browning. 1812-1890
  272. Charles Dickens. 1812-1870
  273. Christopher P. Cranch. 1813- ——
  274. F. W. Faber. 1814-1863
  275. Charles Mackay. 1814- ——
  276. Ellen Sturgis Hooper. 1816-1841
  277. Philip James Bailey. 1816- ——
  278. Eliza Cook. 1817- ——
  279. Nathaniel P. Willis. 1817-1867
  280. William Ellery Channing. 1817- ——
  281. James Russell Lowell. 1819-1891
  282. Charles Kingsley. 1819-1875
  283. Ulysses S. Grant. 1822-1885
  284. Matthew Arnold. 1822-1888
  285. Leonard Heath
  286. Bayard Taylor. 1825-1878
  287. Alexander Smith. 1830-1867
  288. H. F. Chorley. 1831-1872
  289. Elizabeth Akers Allen. 1832- ——
  290. Bishop Henry C. Potter. 1835- ——
  291. Grover Cleveland. 1837- ——
  292. Francis Bret Harte. 1839- ——
  293. Francis W. Bourdillon. 1852- ——
  294. Miscellaneous
  295. Translations
  296. Hesiod. Circa 720 (?) b. c
  297. Æschylus. 525-456 b. c
  298. Sophocles. 496-406 b. c
  299. Euripides. 484-406 b. c
  300. Plautus. 254(?)-184 b. c
  301. Terence. 185-159 b. c
  302. Cicero. 106-43 b. c
  303. Lucretius. 95-55 b. c
  304. Horace. 65-8 b. c
  305. Ovid. 43 b. c.-18 a. d
  306. Of Unknown Authorship
  307. Publius Syrus.[708:1] 42 b. c
  308. Seneca. 8 b. c.-65 a. d
  309. Phædrus. 8 a. d
  310. Pliny the Elder. 23-79 a. d
  311. Quintilian. 42-118 a. d
  312. Martial. 40-102 a. d
  313. Plutarch. 46(?)-120(?) a. d
  314. Epictetus. Circa 60 a. d
  315. Tacitus. 54-119 a. d
  316. Pliny the Younger. 61-105 a. d
  317. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. 121-180 a. d
  318. Tertullian. 160-240 a. d
  319. Diogenes Laertius. Circa 200 a. d
  320. Athenæus. Circa 200 a. d
  321. Saint Augustine. 354-430
  322. Omar Khayyám. —— -1123
  323. Dante. 1265-1321
  324. Martin Luther. 1483-1546
  325. Francis Rabelais. 1495-1553
  326. Michael De Montaigne. 1533-1592
  327. Du Bartas. 1544-1590
  328. Miguel De Cervantes. 1547-1616
  329. Friedrich Von Logau. 1604-1655
  330. Francis, Duc De La Rochefoucauld. 1613-1680
  331. J. De La Fontaine. 1621-1695
  332. Jean Baptiste Molière. 1622-1673
  333. Blaise Pascal. 1623-1662
  334. Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux. 1636-1711
  335. Alain René Le Sage. 1668-1747
  336. Francis M. Voltaire. 1694-1778
  337. Gesta Romanorum.[802:1]
  338. Goethe. 1749-1832
  339. Joseph Rouget De L'Isle. 1760- ——
  340. Joseph Fouché. 1763-1820
  341. Miscellaneous Translations
  342. The Bible
  343. New Testament
  344. Book of Common Prayer
  345. Appendix

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