William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist
No. 1, "Walking With God"
Olney Hymns (1779)
“How fair a lot to fill
Is left to each man still.”
"A Summer Night," Poems: Second Series, (1855), last stanza http://books.google.com/books?id=IzpcAAAAcAAJ&q=%22How+fair+a+lot+to+fill+Is+left+to+each+man+still%22&pg=PA210#v=onepage
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Is left to each man still." by Matthew Arnold?
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The Change from The London Literary Gazette (16th February 1828)
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
“The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.”
Francois Rabelais book Gargantua and Pantagruel
Original: …l'estomach affamé n'a poinct d'aureilles, il n'oyt goutte.
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fourth Book (1548, 1552), Chapter 63.
Ben Jonson (1572–1637) English writer
LXXXIV, Eupheme, part 4, lines 37-40
The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio (1640), Underwoods
Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer
Also used at his funeral (3 Sep. 2009) invitation. Quoted in "Dead stars and classic art will surround Michael Jackson " in CNN.com/entertainment (03 July 2009) http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/03/michael.jackson.funeral/index.html#cnnSTCOther1
Austen Henry Layard (1817–1894) British politician (1817–1894)
Speech in Parliament (January 15, 1855), reported in Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, Third Series, vol. cxxxviii. p. 2077; this can be contrasted witho Sydney Smith's statement "The officer and the office, the doer and the thing done, seldom fit so exactly that we can say they were almost made for each other" in Sketches of Moral Philosophy (1806).
