
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)
Book III, line 385.
The Art of Preserving Health (1744)
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)
The Country Justice, Part i, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). This allusion to the dead soldier and his widow on the field of battle was made the subject of a print by Bunbury, under which were engraved the pathos-laden lines of Langhorne. Sir Walter Scott mentioned that the only time he saw Burns this picture was in the room. Burns shed tears over it; and Scott, then a lad of fifteen, was the only person present who could tell him where the lines were to be found. In Lockhart, Life of Scott, vol. i. chap. iv.
“A guardian angel o'er his life presiding,
Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing.”
Human Life (1819)
The Grave of Bonaparte, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919) (incorrectly attributed as "Leonard" Heath).
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, P. 66.