Moss.-Quincy. - Stowell. 413 THOMAS MOSS. Circa 1740-1808. Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door, Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span ; Oh! give relief, and Heaven will bless your The Beggar. store. A pampered menial drove me from the door.1 Ibid. JOSIAH QUINCY. 1744-1775. Blandishments will not fascinate us, nor will threats of a "halter" intimidate. For, under God, we are determined that, wheresoever, whensoever, or howsoever, we shall be called to make our exit, we will die freemen. Observations on the Boston Port Bill, 1774. LORD STOWELL. 1745-1836. A dinner lubricates business. Boswell's Johnson. Vol. viii. 67, n. The elegant simplicity of the three per cents. Campbell's Chancellors. Vol. x. Ch. 212. 1 This line stood originally, "A livery servant," etc., and altered as above by Goldsmith. - Foster's Life of Goldsmith, Vol. i. p. 215, Fifth Edition, 1871. RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN. 1751-1816. A progeny of learning. The Rivals. Act i. Sc. 2. Too civil by half. Act iii. Sc. 4. You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you? Act iv. Sc. 2. The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it. Act iv. Sc. 3. As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile. Act v. Sc. 3. My valour is certainly going! it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the palm of my hands. I own the soft impeachment. Act v. Sc. 3. Act v. Sc. 3. Steal! to be sure they may, and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children, - disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.1 The Critic. Act i. Sc. 1. Egad! I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two. Act i. Sc. 2. No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope. Act ii. Sc. 1. Where they do agree on the stage, their una nimity is wonderful. Act ii. Sc. 2. 1 Compare Churchill, The Apology, Line 233. Inconsolable to the minuet in Ariadne. The Critic. Act ii. Sc. 2. The Spanish fleet thou canst not see, — because - It is not yet in sight. Ibid. Act ii. Sc. 2. An oyster may be crossed in love. Ibid. Act iii. You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin. School for Scandal. Act i. Sc. 1. I leave my character behind me. Ibid. Act ii. Sc. 2. Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here's to the widow of fifty; Here's to the flaunting, extravagant quean, And here's to the housewife that 's thrifty. Let the toast pass; Drink to the lass ; I'll warrant she 'll prove an excuse for the glass. Ibid. Act iii. Sc. 3. An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinherit ing countenance. Ibid. Act iv. Sc. I. I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me ; But where my own did hope to sip. The Duenna. Acti. Sc. 2. Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne'er could injure you. Ibid. Acti. Sc. 5. Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics. The Duenna. Act ii. Sc. 4. The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted. to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.1 Speech in reply to Mr. Dundas. (Sheridaniana.) You write with ease to show your breeding, But easy writing 's curst hard reading. Clio's Protest. Moore's Life of Sheridan. Vol. i. p. 155. Such protection as vultures give to lambs. Pizarro. Act ii. Sc. 2. WILLIAM PITT. 1759-1806. Necessity is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves.2 Speech on the India Bill, Nov. 1783. Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all That shared its shelter, perish in its fall. From The Foetry of the Anti-Jacobin. No. xxxvi. GEORGE CRABBE. 1754-1832. Oh! rather give me commentators plain, 8 1 On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire. - Le Sage, Gil Blas, Iivre i Ch. xi. -- 2 Compare Milton, Par. Lost, Book iv. Line 393. 3 See Young, Satire vii. Line 97. Her air, her manners, all who saw admired; In this fool's paradise he drank delight.1 The Borough. Letter xii. Players. Books cannot always please, however good; Ibid. Letter xxiv. Schools. In idle wishes fools supinely stay; Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way. The Birth of Flattery. 'T was good advice, and means, my son, be good. The Learned Boy. Cut and come again. Tales. vii. Line 26. J. P. KEMBLE. 1757-1823. Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, The Panel? Act i. Sc. 1. 1 See Proverbial Expressions. 2 Altered from Bickerstaff's 'Tis Well 't is no Worse. The lines are also found in Debrett's Asylum for Fugitive Pieces, Vol. i. p. 15. |