John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Sydney Smith. (1771–1845) (continued) |
| 4876 |
| The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent, into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent, flings himself back upon his chintz bed which has paid twenty-two per cent, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. |
| Review of Seybert’s Annals of the United States, 1820. |
| 4877 |
| In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play, or looks at an American picture or statue? |
| Review of Seybert’s Annals of the United States, 1820. |
| 4878 |
| Magnificent spectacle of human happiness. |
| America. Edinburgh Review, July, 1824. |
| 4879 |
| In the midst of this sublime and terrible storm [at Sidmouth], Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing out the sea-water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused; Mrs. Partington’s spirit was up. But I need not tell you that the contest was unequal; the Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. |
| Speech at Taunton, 1813. |
| 4880 |
| Men who prefer any load of infamy, however great, to any pressure of taxation, however light. |
| On American Debts. |
| John Hookham Frere. (1769–1846) |
| 4881 |
| And don’t confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation. |
| The Monks and the Giants. Canto i. Line 6. |
| 4882 |
| A sudden thought strikes me,—let us swear an eternal friendship. 1 |
| The Rovers. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| Note 1. See Otway, Quotation 5. My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.—Jean Baptiste Molière: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, act iv. sc. 1. [back] |