John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
3963 Henry Fielding 1707-1754 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 3963 |
| AUTHOR: | Henry Fielding (1707–1754) |
| QUOTATION: | Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets, With a third dog one of the two dogs meets; With angry teeth he bites him to the bone, And this dog smarts for what that dog has done. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 6. |
| WORKS: | Henry Fielding Collection. |
| Note 1. Thus when a barber and a collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier—white; The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack, And big with vengeance beats the barber—black. In comes the brick-dust man, with grime o’erspread, And beats the collier and the barber—red: Black, red, and white in various clouds are tost, And in the dust they raise the combatants are lost. Christopher Smart: The Trip to Cambridge (on “Campbell’s Specimens of the British Poets,” vol. vi. p. 185). [back] |