BEING AN ATTEMPT TO TRACE TO THEIR SOURCES PASSAGES AND PHRASES IN COMMON USE BY JOHN BARTLETT “I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but MONTAIGNE, Essays, Book üi. ch, 12. EIGHTH EDITION REVISED BY THE AUTHOR LONDON NEW YORK 1883 ADVERTISEMENT TO THE EIGHTH EDITION. The first edition of “Familiar Quotations ” was published in 1855, the seventh in 1875. The present edition contains quotations from one hundred and twenty-five authors who are not represented in any former edition; and more than six thousand lines have been added to the Index. CAMBRIDGE, 1.S. |