John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| John Gay. (1685–1732) (continued) |
| 3816 |
| So comes a reckoning when the banquet ’s o’er,— The dreadful reckoning, and men smile no more. 1 |
| The What d’ ye call it. Act ii. Sc. 9. |
| 3817 |
| ’T is woman that seduces all mankind; By her we first were taught the wheedling arts. |
| The Beggar’s Opera. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| 3818 |
| Over the hills and far away. 2 |
| The Beggar’s Opera. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| 3819 |
| If the heart of a man is depress’d with cares, The mist is dispell’d when a woman appears. |
| The Beggar’s Opera. Act ii. Sc. 1. |
| 3820 |
| The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets. |
| The Beggar’s Opera. Act ii. Sc. 2. |
| 3821 |
| Brother, brother! we are both in the wrong. |
| The Beggar’s Opera. Act ii. Sc. 2. |
| 3822 |
| How happy could I be with either, Were t’ other dear charmer away! |
| The Beggar’s Opera. Act ii. Sc. 2. |
| 3823 |
| The charge is prepar’d, the lawyers are met, The judges all ranged,—a terrible show! |
| The Beggar’s Opera. Act iii. Sc. 2. |
| 3824 |
| All in the Downs the fleet was moor’d. |
| Sweet William’s Farewell to Black-eyed Susan. |
| 3825 |
| Adieu, she cried, and waved her lily hand. |
| Sweet William’s Farewell to Black-eyed Susan. |
| 3826 |
| Remote from cities liv’d a swain, Unvex’d with all the cares of gain; His head was silver’d o’er with age, And long experience made him sage. |
| Fables. Part i. The Shepherd and the Philosopher. |
| 3827 |
| Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O’er books consum’d the midnight oil? 3 |
| Fables. Part i. The Shepherd and the Philosopher. |
| 3828 |
| Where yet was ever found a mother Who ’d give her booby for another? |
| Fables. Part i. The Mother, the Nurse, and the Fairy. |
| Note 1. The time of paying a shot in a tavern among good fellows, or Pantagruelists, is still called in France a “quart d’heure de Rabelais,”—that is, Rabelais’s quarter of an hour, when a man is uneasy or melancholy.—Life of Rabelais (Bohn’s edition), p. 13. [back] |
| Note 2. O’er the hills and far away.—D’Urfey: Pills to purge Melancholy (1628–1723). [back] |
| Note 3. ”Midnight oil,”—a common phrase, used by Quarles, Shenstone, Cowper, Lloyd, and others. [back] |