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.

1903.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY JAN 11 19.2

Copyright, 1875, 1882, 1891, 1903,
BY JOHN BARTLETT.

UNIVERSITY PRESS:

JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.