The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

When thou, poor excommunicate
From all the joys of love, shalt see
The full reward and glorious fate
Which my strong faith shall purchase me,
Then curse thine own inconstancy.
‘To My Inconstant Mistress’
3.31 Henry Carey c.1687-1743
Let your little verses flow
Gently, sweetly, row by row;
Let the verse the subject fit,
Little subject, little wit.
‘Namby-Pamby: or, A Panegyric on the New Versification’ (1725)
As an actor does his part,
So the nurses get by heart
Namby-pamby’s little rhymes,
Little jingle, little chimes.
‘Namby-Pamby: or, A Panegyric on the New Versification’ (1725)
Of all the girls that are so smart
There’s none like pretty Sally,
She is the darling of my heart,
And she lives in our alley.
‘Sally in our Alley’ (1729)
3.32 Jane Carlyle (Jane Baille Welsh Carlyle) 1801-66
I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.
Letter to Thomas Carlyle, 7 May 1822, in C. R. Sanders et al. (eds.) ‘The Collected Letters of Thomas and
Jane Welsh Carlyle’ (1970) vol. 2
3.33 Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881
A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
‘Chartism’ (1839) ch. 2
Surely of all ‘rights of man’, this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be,
gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.
‘Chartism’ (1839) ch. 6
In epochs when cash payment has become the sole nexus of man to man.
‘Chartism’ (1839) ch. 6
The ‘golden-calf of self-love.’
‘Critical and Miscellaneous Essays’ (1838) ‘Burns’
The foul sluggard’s comfort: ‘It will last my time.’
‘Critical and Miscellaneous Essays’ (1838) ‘Count Cagliostro. Flight Last’