“By the living jingo, she was all of a muck of sweat.”
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 9.
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“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)
“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.
“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)
“And learn the luxury of doing good.”
Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 22.
“Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we see
Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!”
Source: Retaliation (1774), Line 11.
“Pride in their port, defiance in their eye,
I see the lords of humankind pass by.”
Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 327.
“As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent.”
No. 175, Upon Unfortunate Merit.
The Bee (1759)
“Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.”
Act I, Scene 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=sZloXETcr24C&q=%22Don't+let+us+make+imaginary+evils+when+you+know+we+have+so+many+real+ones+to+encounter%22&pg=PA21#v=onepage.
The Good-Natured Man (1768)
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 6-7.
“The king himself has followed her
When she has walk'd before.”
Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize, st. 5.
The Bee (1759)
“This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.”
Act I.
The Good-Natured Man (1768)
“Baw! Damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other!
With baskets.”
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act IV
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 13.
“Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long.”
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 8.
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 17, An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, st. 3.
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 10.
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 109.
“On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting;
'Twas only that when he was off he was acting.”
Source: Retaliation (1774), Line 101.
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 19.
“The sigh that rends thy constant heart
Shall break thy Edwin's too.”
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 33.
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 211.
Act II.
The Captivity, An Oratorio (1764)
The Haunch of Venison (1776).
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act I
“They liked the book the better the more it made them cry.”
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act II
“Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,
Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.”
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 329.
“And, ev'n while fashion's brightest arts decoy,
The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy.”
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 263.
“The man recovered of the bite,
The dog it was that died.”
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 17, An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, st. 8.
