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 WilsOX AND Sox, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. THIS EDITION

IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED TO

THE MEMORY OF THE LATE ASSISTANT EDITOR.

REZIN A. WIGHT.

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