
“Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.”
Pt. I line 27-28.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
“Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.”
“I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.”
“Fireside happiness, to hours of ease
Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.”
Human Life (1819)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 19.
“As in the eye of Nature he has lived,
So in the eye of Nature let him die!”
The Old Cumberland Beggar.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Act V., Scene II. — (Cornelio).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 274.
I Lucidi (published 1549)
Canto I, line 51
Source: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)