John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
3530 Alexander Pope 1688-1744 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 3530 |
| AUTHOR: | Alexander Pope (1688–1744) |
| QUOTATION: | Means not, but blunders round about a meaning; And he whose fustian ’s so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot. Prologue to the Satires. Line 186. |