| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 3482 |
| AUTHOR: | Alexander Pope (16881744) |
| QUOTATION: | Those oft are stratagems which errors seem, Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Essay on Criticism. Part i. Line 177. |
| | Note 1. Quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus (Even the worthy Homer some times nods).Horace: De Arte Poetica, 359. [back] |
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