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Henry Fielding. (1707–1754) (continued)

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To sun myself in Huncamunca’s eyes.

Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 3.

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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

Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 6.

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I am as sober as a judge. 2

Don Quixote in England. Act iii. Sc. 14.

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Much may be said on both sides. 3

The Covent Garden Tragedy. Act i. Sc. 8.

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Enough is equal to a feast. 4

The Covent Garden Tragedy. Act v. Sc. 1.

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We must eat to live and live to eat. 5

The Miser. Act iii. Sc. 3.

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Penny saved is a penny got. 6

The Miser. Act iii. Sc. 12.

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Oh, the roast beef of England,
And old England’s roast beef!

The Grub Street Opera. Act iii. Sc. 2.

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This story will not go down.

Tumble-down Dick.

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]

Note 2.
Sober as a judge.—Charles Lamb: Letter to Mr. and Mrs. Moxon. [back]

Note 3.
See Addison, Quotation 28. [back]

Note 4.
See Heywood, Quotation 133. [back]

Note 5.
Socrates said, Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.—Plutarch: How a Young Man ought to hear Poems. [back]

Note 6.
A penny saved is twopence dear;
A pin a day ’s a groat a year.
Benjamin Franklin: Hints to those that would be Rich (1736). [back]

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