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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| NUMBER: | 4472 |
| AUTHOR: | William Cowper (1731–1800) |
| QUOTATION: | Our wasted oil unprofitably burns, Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Conversation. Line 357. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| Note 1. See Butler, Quotation 45. The story of a lamp which was supposed to have burned about fifteen hundred years in the sepulchre of Tullia, the daughter of Cicero, is told by Pancirollus and others. [back] |
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