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"Hope! thou nurse of young desire."
Isaac Bickerstaff / Love in a Village. Act i. Sc. 1.
Love in a Village. Act i. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the river Dee; He worked and sung from morn till night: No lark more blithe than he."
Isaac Bickerstaff / Love in a Village. Act i. Sc. 2.
Love in a Village. Act i. Sc. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"And this the burden of his song Forever used to be,-- I care for nobody, no, not I, If no one cares for me."
Isaac Bickerstaff / Love in a Village. Act i. Sc. 2.
Love in a Village. Act i. Sc. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Young fellows will be young fellows."
Isaac Bickerstaff / Love in a Village. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Love in a Village. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Ay, do despise me! I 'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised."
Isaac Bickerstaff / The Hypocrite. Act v. Sc. 1.
The Hypocrite. Act v. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain