Richard Savage Quotes

Richard Savage was an English poet. He is best known as the subject of Samuel Johnson's Life of Savage, originally published anonymously in 1744, on which is based one of the most elaborate of Johnson's Lives of the English Poets. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. January 1697 – 1. August 1743
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Famous Richard Savage Quotes

“He lives to build, not boast, a generous race;
No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.”

The Bastard (1728), line 7, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“May see thee now, though late, redeem thy name,
And glorify what else is damn'd to fame.”

Character of Foster, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "All crowd, who foremost shall be damn'd to fame", Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, Book III, line 158.

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