The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

There is no ‘royal road’ to geometry.
Said to Ptolemy I, in Proclus ‘Commentary on the First Book of Euclid’s Elementa’ prologue, pt. 2
5.50 Euripides c.485-406 B.C.
My tongue swore, but my mind’s unsworn.
‘Hippolytus’ l. 612 (Hippolytus, justifying his breaking of an oath)
5.51 Abel Evans 1679-1737
Under this stone, Reader, survey
Dead Sir John Vanbrugh’s house of clay.
Lie heavy on him, Earth! for he
Laid many heavy loads on thee!
‘Epitaph on Sir John Vanbrugh, Architect of Blenheim Palace’
5.52 John Evelyn 1620-1706
This knight was indeed a valiant Gent: but not a little given to romance, when he spake of
himself.
E. S. de Beer (ed.) ‘The Diary of John Evelyn’ (1955) vol. 3, p. 40 (6 September 1651)
Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best
quality to be exceedingly cheated at.
E. S. de Beer (ed.) ‘The Diary of John Evelyn’ (1955) vol. 3, p. 96 (10 May 1654)
That miracle of a youth, Mr Christopher Wren.
E. S. de Beer (ed.) ‘The Diary of John Evelyn’ (1955) vol. 3, p. 106 (11 July 1654)
I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played, but now the old play began to disgust this refined age.
E. S. de Beer (ed.) ‘The Diary of John Evelyn’ (1955) vol. 3, p. 304 (26 November 1661)
5.53 David Everett 1769-1813
You’d scarce expect one of my age
To speak in public on the stage;
And if I chance to fall below
Demosthenes or Cicero,
Don’t view me with a critic’s eye,
But pass my imperfections by.
Large streams from little fountains flow,
Tall oaks from little acorns grow.
‘Lines Written for a School Declamation’
5.54 Viscount Eversley
See Charles Shaw-Lefevre (7.71) in Volume II
5.55 William Norman Ewer 1885-1976