1898 Quotations by Great Authors Bartlett Shakespeare Bible Milton Plutarch etc

Description: Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases And Proverbs Traced To Their Sources In Ancient And Modern Literature By John Bartlett Ninth Edition Published By Little, Brown And Company
Boston 1898 Hardcover. Cloth binding. Color-coated endpapers. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" (15) + 1,158 pages. Extensively Indexed by Subject matter; the Index includes thousands and thousands of entries and occupies over 350 pages. 125 years old. Thousands of excellent quotations from hundreds of famous writers, compiled by John Bartlett (1820-1905). The English authors are arranged chronologically, beginning with Chaucer , followed by Miscellaneous authors. In the final section, before the Appendix and Index, are quotations from authors which were translated into English ( this includes the Ancient Greek and Roman writers , the Bible quotations, Cervantes , Rabelais , Voltaire , etc., etc. ) A sampling of the Authors includes : John Adams John Quincy Adams Joseph Addison Aeschylus Alphonso The Wise Aristophanes Aristotle Lord Bacon Mrs. Barbauld Bertrand Barere St. Bernard James Beattie Bernard E. Bee The Holy Bible ( almost 40 pages of Bible quotations ; Old and New Testaments ) Colonel Blacker Sir William Blackstone John Brown Elizabeth Barrett Browning Robert Browning William Cullen Bryant John Bunyan Edmund Burke Robert Burns Samuel Butler Lord Byron John C. Calhoun George Canning Thomas Carlyle Joseph E. Carpenter Cervantes Geoffrey Chaucer Lydia Maria Child Cicero Henry Clay Sir Edward Coke Nathaniel Cotton William Cowper George Crabbe Dante Charles Darwin Jefferson Davis Stephen Decatur Daniel Defoe Demothenes John Dickinson De Ligne Charles Dickens Dionysius The Elder Benjamin Disraeli Thomas Drummond John Dryden Ralph Waldo Emerson Epictetus Euripodes Edward Everett George Farquhar Henry Fielding Fenelon John Ford Francis The First Benjamin Franklin David Garrick John Gay Edward Gibbon Goethe Oliver Goldsmith Ulysses S. Grant Thomas Gray Edward E. Hale Fitz-Greene Halleck President Rutherford B. Hayes Felicia Hemans Patrick Henry Robert Herrick Hesiod Hippocrates Oliver Wendell Holmes Thomas Hood Joseph Hopkinson Horace David Hume Washington Irving Andrew Jackson Thomas Jefferson Samuel Johnson Ben Jonson Juvenal John Keats Frances Anne Kemble Thomas A Kempis Francis Scott Key Charles Kingsley William Knox La Fontaine Henry Lee Nathaniel Lee Mark Lemon Le Sage Abraham Lincoln John G. Lockhart Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Richard Lovelace Lucretius Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton Marcus Aurellius Christopher Marlowe Martial Mimnermus Charles Milner John Milton Moliere James Montgomery Thomas Moore Hannah More Sir Thomas More George Morris Ernst F. Munster Lady Nairne Sir W. F. P. Napier Horatio Nelson Napoleon Bonaparte Isaac Newton Captain O'Kelley Hohn Oldham Sir Thomas Overbury Ovid Thomas Paine Julia Pardoe Pascal Phaedrus Wendell Phillips John Pierpont William Pitt Pliny the Elder Pliny the Younger Platus Edgar Allan Poe Plutarch Syrus Publius Josish Quincy Rabelais Ann Radcliffe Sir Walter Raleigh Thomas Ravencroft Madame Roland Rousseau Saint Augustine Saint Francis De Sales Epes Sargent Richard Savage Schiller Sir Walter Scott Seneca Wiliam Shakespeare ( fully 120 pages of quotations from the works of Skakespeare ! ) Percy Bysshe Shelley Sismondi John Skeleton Christopher Smart Tobias Smollett Sophocles Edmund Spenser Robert Southey Laurence Sterne Charles Sumner Jonathan Swift Tacitus Bayard Taylor Sir William Temple Alfred Lord Tennyson Terence Tertullian Theognis Thomas Tickell John Trumbull Valerius Maximus Henry Vaughn Virgil Voltaire Edmund Waller Izaak Walton George Washington Isaac Watts Daniel Webster John Wesley John Greenleaf Whittier Roger Williams Nathaniel P. Willis Dr. John Wolcott William Wordsworth Sir Henry Wotton Edward Young Jan Zamoyski ...and Many, Many More. ------- Condition. Binding wear, some binding stains. Fraying at the head and tail of the spine. ( see the photos ) The inner hinges have been carefully strengthened with a little Bookbinder's glue, and are secure. Old ink name on the front blank endpaper : " E. Mabel Adams , 1899 " No other writing. No markings. The pages are in good condition. Carefully packed for shipment to the buyer. ----------- Biographical Information: John Bartlett (1820-1905), American compiler, writer and publisher. Born in Plymouth , Massachusetts - his father was a descendant of Mayflower Pilgrims : Love Brewster, a founder of the town of Bridgewater, Massachusetts ; Elder William Brewster , the Pilgrim colonist leader and spiritual elder of the Plymouth Colony ; and John Alden, who was hired as a cooper in Southampton, England. He was a bright boy, he began reading at age three and had read the entire Bible by nine. He finished school at age sixteen and went to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he worked for the University Bookstore that served Harvard. By age twenty-nine he owned the store. Known for his memory for quotations and trivia, "Ask John Bartlett" became a byword in the community when someone was stumped. In 1855 he privately printed the first edition of his Familiar Quotations, which included American and traditional British and Biblical selections. The 1855 edition comprised 258 pages and contained entries from 169 authors. One-third of the book was quotations from the Bible and from the works of William Shakespeare, most of the balance being lines from the great English poets. Bartlett sold the bookstore in 1862 to become a paymaster in the United States Navy during the Civil War ; he served on the South Atlantic station. In 1863 he returned to Boston to join the firm Little, Brown and Company. Also in 1863, Little, Brown issued the fourth edition of his quotation book. Bartlett rose to be the publishing firm's senior partner in 1878 and retired from the firm in 1889. In addition to work on nine editions of his quotations book in his lifetime, Bartlett wrote on fishing, and chess. He compiled a massive concordance of Shakespeare, published in 1894, which is still the standard work of its kind. Bartlett received an honorary degree from Harvard in 1871. In 1892, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts aged 85 and is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. His Familiar Quotations , now in its seventeenth edition, is still published by Little, Brown.

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