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"God bless the King,--I mean the faith's defender! God bless--no harm in blessing--the Pretender! But who pretender is, or who is king,-- God bless us all!--that 's quite another thing."
To an Officer of the Army, extempore.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Take time enough: all other graces Will soon fill up their proper places."
Advice to Preach Slow.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Some say, compar'd to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel 's but a ninny; Others aver that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle. Strange all this difference should be 'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee."
On the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"As clear as a whistle."
Epistle to Lloyd. I.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The point is plain as a pike-staff."
Epistle to a Friend.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Bone and Skin, two millers thin, Would starve us all, or near it; But be it known to Skin and Bone That Flesh and Blood can't bear it."
Epigram on Two Monopolists.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Thus adorned, the two heroes, 'twixt shoulder and elbow, Shook hands and went to 't; and the word it was bilbow."
Upon a Trial of Skill between the Great Masters of the Noble Science of Defence, Messrs. Figg and Sutton.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain