Think outside the bun
Colin Burrow: Quote Me!, 8 September 2022
The New Yale Book of Quotations
edited by Fred R. Shapiro.
Yale, 1136 pp., £35, October 2021,978 0 300 20597 8 Show More
edited by Fred R. Shapiro.
Yale, 1136 pp., £35, October 2021,
“... because it presented ‘what oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed’ (to quote Alexander Pope)? Or was it, perish the thought, a ‘quotation’ for the simple reason that it had appeared in earlier books of quotations, and so could be ripped off by buccaneers like Bartlett?The preface to the third edition of the Oxford Dictionary in 1979 ... ”