
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
Source: Frankenstein
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
“O little booke, thou art so unconning,
How darst thou put thy-self in prees for drede?”
The Flower and the Leaf, line 59
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Whoe'er thou art, thy Lord and master see,
Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be.”
Inscription for a Figure representing the God of Love. See Genuine Works. (1732) I. 129. Version of a Greek couplet from the Greek Anthology.
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 272.
Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 263.
“Know'st thou not well, with thy superior wisdom, that
On a vain tongue punishment is inflicted?”
Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 328–329 (tr. Henry David Thoreau)