Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Fine
Fine by degrees, and beautifully less.
Prior.—Henry and Emma.
Fine by defect, and delicately weak.
Pope.—Moral Essays, Epistle II. Line 43.
False by degrees, and exquisitely wrong.
Canning.—New Morality.
Fine words, I wonder where you stole ’em.
Swift.—Whitshed’s Motto.