ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FOURTH EDITION. THE favor shown to former editions has encouraged the compiler of this Collection to go on with the work and make it more worthy. readers may It is not easy to determine in all cases the degree of familiarity that may belong to phrases and sentences which present themselves for admission; for what is familiar to one class of be quite new to another. Many maxims of the most famous writers of our language, and numberless curious and happy turns from orators and poets, have knocked at the door, and it was hard to deny them. But to admit these simply on their own merits, without assurance that the general reader would readily recognize them as old friends, was aside from the purpose of this Collection. Still, it has been thought better to incur the risk of erring on the side of fulness. Owing to the great number of Quotations added in this edition, it has been necessary to make an entire reconstruction of the book. It is hoped the lovers of this agreeable subsidiary literature may find an increased usefulness in the Collection corresponding with its present enlargement. Cambridge, December, 1863. J. B. Bickerstaff, Isaac, Berkeley, Bishop, . 215 Charles II., 397 183 Choate, Rufus, 389 Blackstone, William, 378 Churchill, Charles,. 256 Blair, Robert, 216 Cibber, Colley, 182 Bobart, Jacob, Book Bolingbroke, Lord, Prayer, . of Common Booth, Barton, 256 Bramston, Rev. Mr., 401 Cornuel, Madame, . 398 245 137 257 273 140, 371 392 235 Rabelais, Francis, 366 124 376 174 349 385 273 315 Milnes, R. Monckton, 345 280 374 . 1 Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire, 175 174 Shenstone, William, 236 Shirley, James, . 383 Sidney, Sir Philip,. Paine, Thomas, . 271 135 368 253 296 253 237 Spencer, William R., 307 27 359 Pinckney, Charles C., 385 |