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T was when the sea was roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclind. |
The What d ye call it. Act ii. Sc. 8. |
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So comes a reckoning when the banquet s oer, The dreadful reckoning, and men smile no more. 1 |
The What d ye call it. Act ii. Sc. 9. |
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T is woman that seduces all mankind; By her we first were taught the wheedling arts. |
The Beggars Opera. Act i. Sc. 1. |
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Over the hills and far away. 2 |
The Beggars Opera. Act i. Sc. 1. |
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If the heart of a man is depressd with cares, The mist is dispelld when a woman appears. |
The Beggars Opera. Act ii. Sc. 1. |
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The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets. |
The Beggars Opera. Act ii. Sc. 2. |
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Brother, brother! we are both in the wrong. |
The Beggars Opera. Act ii. Sc. 2. |
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How happy could I be with either, Were t other dear charmer away! |
The Beggars Opera. Act ii. Sc. 2. |
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The charge is prepard, the lawyers are met, The judges all ranged,a terrible show! |
The Beggars Opera. Act iii. Sc. 2. |
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All in the Downs the fleet was moord. |
Sweet Williams Farewell to Black-eyed Susan. |
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Adieu, she cried, and waved her lily hand. |
Sweet Williams Farewell to Black-eyed Susan. |
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Remote from cities livd a swain, Unvexd with all the cares of gain; His head was silverd oer with age, And long experience made him sage. |
Fables. Part i. The Shepherd and the Philosopher. |
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Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil Oer books consumd the midnight oil? 3 |
Fables. Part i. The Shepherd and the Philosopher. |
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Where yet was ever found a mother Who d give her booby for another? |
Fables. Part i. The Mother, the Nurse, and the Fairy. |
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No author ever spard a brother. |
Fables. Part i. The Elephant and the Bookseller. |
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Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view. |
Fables. Part i. The Painter who pleased Nobody and Everybody. |
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In evry age and clime we see Two of a trade can never agree. 4 |
Fables. Part i. The Rat-catcher and Cats. |
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Is there no hope? the sick man said; The silent doctor shook his head. |
Fables. Part i. The Sick Man and the Angel. |
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While there is life there s hope, he cried. 5 |
Fables. Part i. The Sick Man and the Angel. |
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Those who in quarrels interpose Must often wipe a bloody nose. |
Fables. Part i. The Mastiffs. |
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That raven on yon left-hand oak (Curse on his ill-betiding croak!) Bodes me no good. 6 |
Fables. Part i. The Farmers Wife and the Raven. |
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And when a lady s in the case, You know all other things give place. |
Fables. Part i. The Hare and many Friends. |
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Give me, kind Heaven, a private station, A mind serene for contemplation: Title and profit I resign; The post of honour shall be mine. 7 |
Fables. Part ii. The Vulture, the Sparrow, and other Birds. |
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From wine what sudden friendship springs! |
The Squire and his Cur. |
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Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it. |
My own Epitaph. |
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Note 1. The time of paying a shot in a tavern among good fellows, or Pantagruelists, is still called in France a quart dheure de Rabelais,that is, Rabelaiss quarter of an hour, when a man is uneasy or melancholy.Life of Rabelais (Bohns edition), p. 13. [back] |
Note 2. Oer the hills and far away.DUrfey: Pills to purge Melancholy (16281723). [back] |
Note 3. Midnight oil,a common phrase, used by Quarles, Shenstone, Cowper, Lloyd, and others. [back] |
Note 4. Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and poor man has a grudge against poor man, and poet against poet.Hesiod: Works and Days, 24.
Le potier au potier porte envie (The potter envies the potter).Bohn: Handbook of Proverbs.
Arthur Murphy: The Apprentice, act iii. [back] |
Note 5. [greek] (For the living there is hope, but for the dead there is none.)Theocritus: Idyl iv. 42.
Ægroto, dum anima est, spes est (While the sick man has life, there is hope).Cicero: Epistolarum ad Atticum, ix. 10. [back] |
Note 6. It was nt for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.Plautus: Aulularia, act iv. sc. 3. [back] |
Note 7. See Addison, Quotation 14. [back] |
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