HENRY FIELDING. 1707–1754. All nature wears one universal grin. Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 1. Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Act i. Sc. 2. When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough. I've done my duty, and I 've done no more. Thy modesty's a candle to thy merit. Acti Sc. 3. Act i. Sc. 3. To sun myself in Huncamunca's eyes. Acti. Sc. 3. Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets, 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. Christ. Smart, From The Trip to Cambridge. Campbell's Specimens, Vol. vi. p. 185. Doddridge. Cotton. 315 Fielding continued.] Oh! the roast beef of Old England, And oh the old English roast beef. The Roast Beef of Old England. PHILIP DODDRIDGE. 1702-1751. Live while you live, the epicure would say, Epigram on his Family Arms.1 NATHANIEL COTTON. 1707–1788. If solid happiness we prize, And they are fools who roam : The world has nothing to bestow; From our own selves our joys must flow, Thus hand in hand through life we 'll go ; Its checker'd paths of joy and woe 1 Dum vivimus vivamus. Ibid. St. 13. From Ortin's Life of Doddridge. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. 1706-1790. God helps them that help themselves.' Poor Richard. Dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. Ibid. Plough deep while sluggards sleep. Ibid. Never leave that till to-morrow which you can He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. The Whistle. (Nov. 1719.) There never was a good war or a bad peace.2 Letter to Quincy, Sept. 11, 1773. Here Skugg Lies snug, As a bug In a rug. From a Letter to Miss Georgiana Shipley. 1 Help thyself, and God will help thee. Herbert, Jacula Prudentum. Aide toi et le Ciel t'aidera. Fontaine, Book vi. Fable 18. ? It hath been said that an unjust peace is to be preferred before a just war. - S. Butler, Speeches in the Rump Parliament. Butler's Remains. SAMUEL JOHNSON. 1709 – 1784. Let observation with extensive view Survey mankind from China to Peru.1 Vanity of Human Wishes. Line 1. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. Line 159. He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. Line 221. Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe. Line 257. An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, Line 293. Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage. Line 308. Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires, a driveller and a show. Line 316. Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Line 345. For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill. 1 All human race, from China to Peru, Line 362. Pleasure, howe'er disguis'd by art, pursue. Rev. T. Warton, The Universal Love of Pleasure. Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, London. Line 166. This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd, Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd. Line 176. Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Prologue on the Opening of Drury Lane Theatre. And panting Time toil'd after him in vain. Ibid. For we that live to please must please to live. Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Ibid. Life's a short summer man a flower He dies-alas! how soon he dies! Winter Officious, innocent, sincere ; An Ode. Of every friendless name the friend. In misery's darkest cavern known, Stanza 5. And sure the eternal Master found Stanza 7. 1 Var. His ready help was always nigh. |