“A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.”
Essays on Men and Manners (1804)
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“Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.”
"Detached Thoughts : On Writing and Books", p. 129
Essays on Men and Manners (1804)
“Every good poet includes a critic; the reverse will not hold.”
On Writing and Books
“For seldom shall she hear a tale
So sad, so tender, and so true.”
Jemmy Dawson (c. 1745), st. 20
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“There seem near as many people that want passion as want reason.”
Essays on Men and Manners (1804)
“Prudent men should lock up their motives, giving only their intimates a key.”
Essays on Men and Manners (1804)
“Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow,
Emblem right meet of decency does yield.”
Stanza 6
The Schoolmistress (1737-48)
Written at an Inn at Henley (1758), st. 6. Compare: " From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,— Path, motive, guide, original, and end", Samuel Johnson, Motto to the Rambler, No. 7
“My banks they are furnish’d with bees,
Whose murmur invites one to sleep.”
A Pastoral, part II, "Hope".
“A little bench of heedless bishops here,
And there a chancellor in embryo.”
Stanza 28
The Schoolmistress (1737-48)
Essays on Men and Manners (1804)
