The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1857-06-10
FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS.
From "7hings not Generally Knogn,"
BY d. A. WELLS.

croaching upon the sphere of the works de-
voted TO thls purpose, we may mention few
of them
"Ttere is death in the pot" is from the
Bible, Kings, iv. 90. "Lovely and pleas.
AMI in their lives, and in death they were not
! divided" is spoken of Saul and Jonathan, Q
Samuel, j. 90, IA man after his own heari,"
1 Samuel, xiii IA. "The apple of his eye,"
Deut., xix. 2l. "a still small VOICE. 1
Kings, xix. IL. 1'Escaped with the skin OF
my leeth," Job, xix. 20. tThat mine adver.
sary had written book" Job, xxi. 35.-
Spreading himself like green bay iree,"
Psalm, xxxvii. 35. "Hanged our harps upon
the Willows" Psalm, cxxxvii. Q. "Riches
make (aot take, as I is offer quoled,) them
selves wings" Proverbs, xiii. s. "Heap
Goals OF fire upon bis head" Ibid, XIV. %.
"No new thing under the sun" Ecclesasles,
i.s. "of making many books there is no
end" Ibid, xii. IL. "Peace, peace, when
there is no peace" (made famous by Pat.
rick Henry,) jeremiah, viii. II. "My name
is legion" Mark, v.9. "To kick against
the pricks," Acts, tx. S. SNAKE virtue of
necessity" Shakspeare's Two Gentlemen of
Verona. "A!l that clusters is not gold, " usn-
ally quoted "All is rot gold that gIi,lers,"
Merchant oil Venice. "ScIew your courage
10 the sticking place." (not point } Macbeth.
snake assurance douby sure" Ibid. "Hang
out our banners on the outward (not ouler)
walls" Ibid. "Keep the word of promise
TO our (not ths) ear, but break it 10 our hope"
Ibid. "It is an ill.wind that turns none 10
good" usually quoted, offs an ilI.wiud thai.
blows no one any good" Thomas Tasser,
1880. "Christmas comes but once year,"
Ibid. "Look ere thou leap" Ibid; ard "Look
before you ere you leap" Iludibras, com.
monty quoted, "Look before you leap -
"Ou, of mind as soon as out of sight," usu-
ally quoted, "Out of sight, out of mind"
Lord Brooke. "What though the field be
lost, all is not lost" Milton. "Awake, arise,
OF be for ever taIen," Ibid. "Necessily, the
iyranl's plea" Ibid. "That old man, eIo-
quent," ibid. "Peace hath her victories,n
Ibid. "Though this may be play to you, Ills
death to u.s." Roger L'Es,range, 17Oi. "AN
cry and no WOOL" (no, little WOOL Hudlbras
"Count their chickens ere (not before) they're
halched," IBID. "Through thick and lhin,"
Dryden. "When Greeks joined Greeks, then
was the tug of war;" usually quoted "When
Greek meets Greek, then comes the Tug OF
war;" Nathaniel Lee, 1892. "Of two evils,
have chose the least" Prior. 'Richard is
himself again." Colley Bibber. "Classic
ground" Addison. "As clear as whistle"
Byron, 1863, IA good halter,n Johnsoniana.
ga fellow feeling makes one wondrous
kind" Garrick. "My name is Norval,"
John Home, 1908. "Ask me no questions,
and III tell you nc fi5s," Goldsmith. "Not
much The worse for wear" (not none the
worse,) Cowper. "What will Mrs. Grundy
say" Thomas Morton. ''No rent up Utica
contracts your powers," iona. M. Sewell.-
"Hah given hostages 10 fortune," Bacon
ellis (God's) image cut in ebony" Thomas
Fuller. "Wise and mastery inactivity"
Macintosh, in 1871, though generally altri.
bued 10 Randolph. "First in war, first in
peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow
citizens" (not eountrymen,) resolutions pre-
sened 10 House of Representatives, Decem-
Der, 1899, prepared by Gen. Henry Lee
"Mi lions for defence, but not one cent for
tribute," Charles C. Pinckney. "The Al
mighty Dollar,' Washington Irving. GAS
good as play" King Charles, when in Par
lament, attending the discussion of Lord
Ross's divorce bill. "Selling bargaiu," is
in Loves Labor Lost. sFasi and Loose"
Ibid. "Pumplng man." Olway's Venice
Preserved. eco snacks," Pope's prologue
10 Salires. 'In the wrong box" Fox's Mar.
tyrs. "To lamm in The sense of 10 heal,n
King and no King, by Beaumont and Flelch-
er The hackneyed newspaper Latin quota
ton, "Tempora mutantur, nos ell mutamus
in Ills" is moi found in any classic or Latin
author. The neares, approach 10 il was
"Omnia mutantur" &C., and this is found in
German writer Of the middle
ages. e
"Smeling of the lamp" is TO be found in
Plutarch, and is there attributed 10 Pytheas.
IA little bird told me-" comes from Eccles-
asles, x. 20, ''ior bird Of the air shall carry
he voice, and that which hath wings shall
ell the matter"
"He that fights and runs away
May live 10 fight another day"
These lines, usually ascribed to Hudbras,
are really much older. They are to be found
n book published in 1876. The same idea
s, however, expressed in couplet publish
ID in 1542, while one of the few fragments
f Merander, the Greek writer, that have
een preserved, embodies the same idea in
single line The couplet in Hudibras is
"For those that fly may fight again,
Which he can never do that's slain"
"There's good time coming" is an ex. !
tession used by Sir Walter Scott in Rob
10y, and has doubtless for long time been !
familiar saying in Scotland.
Eripuit ealo fulmen, seeptrumQue tyrannis, 6
ma n line unon franklin. written bv Tnrsot.