“T is happy for him that his father was before him.”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 3
Twice the capture the ex cuff the
“T is happy for him that his father was before him.”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 3
“To jump over centuries in one step is impossible. Jump too high or far, you’ll be way too late.”
Dejan Stojanovic book Circling: 1978-1987
”In the Silence of the Century,” p. 60
Circling: 1978-1987 (1993), Sequence: “A Warden with No Keys”
Harry V. Jaffa (1918–2015) American historian and collegiate professor
Source: 2000s, A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (2000), p. 224
William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) American romantic poet and journalist
To a Waterfowl http://www.bartleby.com/102/17.html, st. 8 (1818)
“T is a very fine thing to be father-in-law
To a very magnificent three-tailed Bashaw!”
George Colman the Younger (1762–1836) English dramatist and writer
Blue Beard, Act ii, Scene 5, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Geoffrey Blainey (1930) Australian historian
The Story of Australia's People: The Rise and Rise of a New Australia (2016)