Author: Elizabeth Hamilton
Cites
- Johnson (1)
- IN: Memoirs of the Life of Agrippina: The Wife of Germanicus (1804) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: “History may be said to embody Truth, and prove from Facts the Reasonableneſs of Opinion.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
- Gray (2)
- IN: The cottagers of Glenburnie (1859) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure; Nor grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, The abort and simple annals of the poor.
FROM: “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”, (1751), Poem, UK
- IN: The Cottagers of Glenburnie, A Tale (1837) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Let not ambition mock their useful toil,
Their homely joys and destiny obscure;
Nor grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile,
The short and simple awwale of the poor.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
- Hor (1)
- IN: Memoirs of Modern Philosophers (1801) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Ridiculum acri
Fortius et melius magnas plerumque ſecat res.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
- Horace (2)
- IN: Memoirs of Modern Philosophers (1800) Novel, American
EPIGRAPH: "Ridiculum acri
Fortius et melius magnas plerumque fecat res."
FROM: Satire I, (-33), Book, Italy
- Philip Francis (1)
- IN: Memoirs of Modern Philosophers (1800) Novel, American
EPIGRAPH: "Ridicule shall frequently prevail,
And cut the knot, when graver reasons fail."
FROM: The Works of Horace, (1747), Book, Ireland