John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| John Gay. (1685–1732) (continued) |
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| No author ever spar’d a brother. |
| Fables. Part i. The Elephant and the Bookseller. |
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| Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view. |
| Fables. Part i. The Painter who pleased Nobody and Everybody. |
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| In ev’ry age and clime we see Two of a trade can never agree. 1 |
| Fables. Part i. The Rat-catcher and Cats. |
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| Is there no hope? the sick man said; The silent doctor shook his head. |
| Fables. Part i. The Sick Man and the Angel. |
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| While there is life there ’s hope, he cried. 2 |
| Fables. Part i. The Sick Man and the Angel. |
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| Those who in quarrels interpose Must often wipe a bloody nose. |
| Fables. Part i. The Mastiffs. |
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| That raven on yon left-hand oak (Curse on his ill-betiding croak!) Bodes me no good. 3 |
| Fables. Part i. The Farmer’s Wife and the Raven. |
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| And when a lady ’s in the case, You know all other things give place. |
| Fables. Part i. The Hare and many Friends. |
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| Give me, kind Heaven, a private station, A mind serene for contemplation: Title and profit I resign; The post of honour shall be mine. 4 |
| Fables. Part ii. The Vulture, the Sparrow, and other Birds. |
| Note 1. Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and poor man has a grudge against poor man, and poet against poet.—Hesiod: Works and Days, 24. Le potier au potier porte envie (The potter envies the potter).—Bohn: Handbook of Proverbs. Arthur Murphy: The Apprentice, act iii. [back] |
| Note 2. [greek] (For the living there is hope, but for the dead there is none.)—Theocritus: Idyl iv. 42. Ægroto, dum anima est, spes est (While the sick man has life, there is hope).—Cicero: Epistolarum ad Atticum, ix. 10. [back] |
| Note 3. It was n’t for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.—Plautus: Aulularia, act iv. sc. 3. [back] |
| Note 4. See Addison, Quotation 14. [back] |