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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:2879
AUTHOR:Abraham Cowley (1618–1667)
QUOTATION:Charm’d with the foolish whistling of a name 1
ATTRIBUTION:Virgil, Georgics. Book ii. Line 72.
 
Note 1.
Ravish’d with the whistling of a name.—Alexander Pope: Essay on Man, epistle iv. line 281. [back]
 

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