Volume Iv Part 42 (1/2)
George Macdonald [1824-1905]
Who killed Kildare? Who dared Kildare to kill?
Death killed Kildare--who dare kill whom he will.
Jonathan Swift [1667-1745]
With death doomed to grapple, Beneath the cold slab he Who lied in the chapel Now lies in the abbey.
Byron's epitaph for Pitt
When doctrines meet with general approbation, It is not heresy, but reformation.
David Garrick [1717-1779]
Treason doth never prosper; what's the reason?
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
John Harington [1561-1612]
G.o.d bless the King--I mean the faith's defender!
G.o.d bless (no harm in blessing!) the Pretender!
But who pretender is, or who is King-- G.o.d bless us all!--that's quite another thing.
John Byrom [1692-1763]
'Tis highly rational, we can't dispute, The Love, being naked, should promote a suit: But doth not oddity to him attach Whose fire's so oft extinguished by a match?
Richard Garnett [1835-1906]
”Come, come,” said Tom's father, ”at your time of life, There's no longer excuse for thus playing the rake.-- It is time you should think, boy, of taking a wife.”-- Why, so it is, father,--whose wife shall I take?”
Thomas Moore [1779-1852]
When Eve upon the first of men The apple pressed with specious cant, O, what a thousand pities then That Adam was not Adam-ant!