Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-04-22
Unrocognized Quotations.

.,y,e curic,,ri by striking phrases AMI
|bapl> tnr"- Of txpr's>'ou. wh,cn take
' c.Iuu .jtep and sympathetic root IN the
poob!Ar vocabulary, and enter into
such l'yun use, that their anth ,'sElp
is, invariably Ovrrloo kch. Many
aye regarded soma hat In the
MA. / proverbs. an u~e treated As
thou. q Tiny bel 'ugei to no one Ill par
ticuiar, tlt to s1citty at inrg"; AM
non. Vi thus, So which we niiud- are
usually jnv,s tpd with those inverted
conI1,ns 90 which. as quotations.. they
are il r.-.tty entitled. Thns dnes the
world ron ani then forget It's benefac.
tors. Shakespeare, nf c0ur+e. WAS Il
large corner of these sayings; but, since
in these days there Is but little danger
of has reputation being injured, we
may .rsve bin aside whiis We recall Il
few rniecogu'z d quotations FROM less
carefully t.nded authors. OF these
Samuel Bit!er is perhaps one of the
most neglected. Z" True tiue," is +"
ordinary phrase that we seldom stay
to make iuquiies about it's origin; yet
we might, it W. looked, fluid that the
author If Hnblbras usei it to
characterize, not the torey of his day,
but the Presby terrain. He also 1T was
who. SO far AS we have been able to
discover, first introduced the expression
"the ualu chance in its modern
meaning. H ave care o tn main
chance" he wrote; and Dryden, posi-
bly, COP, ing him. caused Que of the
characters in "Persius to exclaim
.'B, careful still of the main chance. "
D, ,,f Oh. k.,l Eat
eutruunirg the constable" aud again
we are uucensciously beholdeu to Bat
ler's
Friend Rnlph, thou hast
Datum thc c nat,ble al last.
And once more we echo him when we
speak If getting the wrong SOW by
the ear, for he wrote, "y"u have II
wrong SOW by the ear" Another SIM
ilarly jill treated author is Alexander
Pope. We pass over such comparative
ly weil-recns, iz-e quotations AS fools
rush in where augels fear to tread"
but 1t is not generally remembered that
he gave us the expressi 'ns dirty work "
and "poe ic justice The one occurs in
the Epis IL to Arb Hthnot.' and the
other III the " Dinciad." His age was
indeed, specially prolific of telling
phrases. Dean Swift. Ill The Tale of
Tub First alluded to bread ~ "tha
staff of life" Dryden, III OF ipus.
oripi,sted the idea - green old aye >
and Pope himself was the author of
Damn With faint prai'e, assent with civil leer,
And, without sucering, te oh the rest 10
enrUr.
as we'll as of the still more hackneyed
Who sh II d eide whes doctors disagree,
And sound, ST @asuists doubt like you and
me?
Yet Extracts from far more widel.
read DO ks than Pope's Moral Il says "
are daily quoted without recognition
When we speak of "a feast of fat
things" II may be that some of us
rightly attribute the phrase to its an-
thor, the Prophet Isaiah; but it does
not appear to tie as generally remem-
bered that " death in the POI comes to
us from the second DO, of Kings, and
"da, kness which be felt v is the liter
airy property of the author of the book
of Exodus. A play now being actei III
Loa,on ~ entitled THE Mighty Dol
lar" Why not almighty for the
name is obviously borrowed from
Washington Irving, who, The Gre
ole Village" wrote of 1.-The almighty
dollar, that great OF Jet of universal
devotion throughout our land. The
quotation is well-pigh forgotten; AMI
that perhaps is the reason why is lncor
reciiy cited. The same II ay be said of
otht rs. Most people cherish an idea
that some one or other one wrote OF
Beauty when nusdorned is adorned the
mos';" but the text, as given in Thorn
sons " Seasons, really l.:
LONELINESS
Needs not the foreign aid OF ornament,
Bat Is, when unadorn'd aduru'd the most
And in the same WAS Prior's
Fiuc by degrees ard beautifully less
commonly defurmei and transformed
and Cowper's references to
The cups that cheer but not inebriate,
is usually rendered as +, ferriHg to one
cup only. We are, however, wandering
little from our subject. One stereo
typed allusion to tho brevity and in
FRI queDcy of angelic visitatlons may be
traced to any one Of some three or four
sources. Morris, in The Parting
wrote:
Like angels visits, short and bright.
This was about the year 17ll; and
Blair, in The Crave" wrote later Of
Visits,
Like those Of angels short AMI far between;
while Campbell, in "The Pleasures of
Hope" varied the comparison to
Like rngel-visits, few and far between.
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