Act II.
The Captivity, An Oratorio (1764)
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“By the living jingo, she was all of a muck of sweat.”
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 9.
“Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.”
Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 1.
Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize, st. 1.
The Bee (1759)
“Measures, not men, have always been my mark.”
Act II.
The Good-Natured Man (1768)
“A nightcap decked his brows instead of bay,
A cap by night — a stocking all the day!”
Description of an Author's Bedchamber (1760).
“Cheerful at morn, he wakes from short repose,
Breasts the keen air, and carols as he goes.”
Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 185.
“His best companions, innocence and health;
And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.”
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 61.
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 1, opening lines.
“The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade,
For talking age and whispering lovers made.”
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 13.
“We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favors.”
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 1.
“Let us draw upon Content for the deficiencies of fortune.”
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 3.
“Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.”
Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 386.
“The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.”
No. 3 (Oct. 20, 1759).
The Bee (1759)
“He calls his extravagance, generosity; and his trusting everybody, universal benevolence.”
Act I.
The Good-Natured Man (1768)
The Citizen of the World (1760–1761), Letter XV https://books.google.it/books?id=cIELAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA44.
“And learn the luxury of doing good.”
Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 22.