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"Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves."
David Garrick / Prologue to the Gamesters.
Prologue to the Gamesters.
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"Their cause I plead,--plead it in heart and mind; A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind."
David Garrick / Prologue on Quitting the Stage in 1776.
Prologue on Quitting the Stage in 1776.
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"Prologues like compliments are loss of time; 'T is penning bows and making legs in rhyme."
David Garrick / Prologue to Crisp's Tragedy of Virginia.
Prologue to Crisp's Tragedy of Virginia.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run."
David Garrick / On the Death of Mr. Pelham.
On the Death of Mr. Pelham.
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"This scholar, rake, Christian, dupe, gamester, and poet."
David Garrick / Jupiter and Mercury.
Jupiter and Mercury.
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"Hearts of oak are our ships, Hearts of oak are our men."
David Garrick / Hearts of Oak.
Hearts of Oak.
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"Here lies James Quinn. Deign, reader, to be taught, Whate'er thy strength of body, force of thought, In Nature's happiest mould however cast, To this complexion thou must come at last."
David Garrick / Epitaph on Quinn. Murphy's Life of Garrick, Vol. ii. p. 38.
Epitaph on Quinn. Murphy's Life of Garrick, Vol. ii. p. 38.
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"Are these the choice dishes the Doctor has sent us? Is this the great poet whose works so content us? This Goldsmith's fine feast, who has written fine books? Heaven sends us good meat, but the Devil sends cooks?"
David Garrick / Epigram on Goldsmith's Retaliation. Vol. ii. p. 157.
Epigram on Goldsmith's Retaliation. Vol. ii. p. 157.
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"Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an angel, and talk'd like poor Poll."
David Garrick / Impromptu Epitaph on Goldsmith.
Impromptu Epitaph on Goldsmith.
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"Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man."
Oliver Goldsmith / Retaliation. Line 93.
Retaliation. Line 93.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain