George Crabbe idézet

George Crabbe angol költő. Egy, a reményre írt költeménye pályadíjat nyert, ezután Londonba ment, ahol Rutland herceg segítette; később a mustoni és a westallingtoni, 1813-ban a trowbridgei rektorátust nyerte el. 1847-ben szülővárosa templomában emléket állítottak neki. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. december 1754 – 3. február 1832
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George Crabbe: Idézetek angolul

“Habit with him was all the test of truth,
It must be right: I’ve done it from my youth.”

The Borough (1810), Letter iii, "The Vicar", line 138.

“T was good advice, and meant, my son, Be good.”

Tale xxi, "The Learned Boy".
Tales in Verse (1812)

“Who calls a lawyer rogue, may find, too late
Upon one of these depends his whole estate.”

Tales iii, "The Gentleman Farmer".
Tales in Verse (1812)

“But 'twas a maxim he had often tried,
That right was right, and there he would abide.”

Tale xv, "The Squire and the Priest". Compare: "For right is right, since God is God", Frederick William Faber, The Right must win.
Tales in Verse (1812)

“In idle wishes fools supinely stay;
Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.”

The Birth of Flattery, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“He tried the luxury of doing good.”

Book iii, "Boys at School". Compare: "And learn the luxury of doing good", Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, Line 22.
Tales of the Hall (1819)

“Time has touched me gently in his race,
And left no odious furrows in my face.”

Book xvii, "The Widow". Compare: "Touch us gently, Time", Bryan W. Procter, Touch us gently, Time; "Time has laid his hand / Upon my heart, gently", Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Golden Legend, iv.
Tales of the Hall (1819)

“Oh, rather give me commentators plain,
Who with no deep researches vex the brain;
Who from the dark and doubtful love to run,
And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun.”

The Parish Register (1807), Part i, "Introduction". Compare "How commentators each dark passage shun, / And hold their farthing candle to the sun", Edward Young, Love of Fame, Satire vii, Line 97.

“Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.”

Tale xiv, "The Struggles of Conscience". Compare: "'T is better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all", Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxvii.
Tales in Verse (1812)

“Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain,
Like other farmers, flourish and complain.”

The Parish Register (1807), Part 1: "Baptisms", line 273.

“A master passion is the love of news.”

The Newspaper (1785), line 279.

“In this fool's paradise he drank delight.”

The Borough (1810), Letter xii, "Players".

“Secrets with girls, like loaded guns with boys,
Are never valued till they make a noise.”

"The Maid's Story", line 84 (1819).
Tales of the Hall (1819)

“And took for truth the test of ridicule.”

Book viii, "The Sisters".
Tales of the Hall (1819)

“To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.”

Book iii, "Boys at School". Compare: To sigh, yet feel no pain", Thomas Moore The Blue Stocking.
Tales of the Hall (1819)

“Cut and come again.”

Tale vii, "The Widow's Tale".
Tales in Verse (1812)