John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Thomas Gray. (1716–1771) (continued) |
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| From toil he wins his spirits light, From busy day the peaceful night; Rich, from the very want of wealth, In heaven’s best treasures, peace and health. |
| Ode on the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude. Line 93. |
| 4211 |
| The social smile, the sympathetic tear. |
| Education and Government. |
| 4212 |
| When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawn’d from Bullen’s eyes. 1 |
| Education and Government. |
| 4213 |
| Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune; He had not the method of making a fortune. |
| On his own Character. |
| 4214 |
| Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read eternal new romances of Marivaux and Crebillon. |
| To Mr. West. Letter iv. Third Series. |
| David Garrick. (1717–1779) |
| 4215 |
| Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves. |
| Prologue to the Gamesters. |
| 4216 |
| Their cause I plead,—plead it in heart and mind; A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind. 2 |
| Prologue on Quitting the Stage in 1776. |
| 4217 |
| Prologues like compliments are loss of time; ’T is penning bows and making legs in rhyme. |
| Prologue to Crisp’s Tragedy of Virginia. |
| 4218 |
| Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run. 3 |
| On the Death of Mr. Pelham. |
| Note 1. This was intended to be introduced in the “Alliance of Education and Government.”—Mason’s edition of Gray, vol. iii. p. 114. [back] |
| Note 2. See Burton, Quotation 2. [back] |
| Note 3. Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.—Plutarch: Life of Pompey. [back] |