Kent-Drury

English 202

Spring 03 Final Quotations

The quotations for the final will be drawn from the following list:

1. "I'll so describe your dressing room/The very Irish shall not come."/She answered short, "I'm glad you'll write. You'll furnish paper when I shite."

2. "'Name of God go in; for depend upon it, 'twill be a sermon to you, it may be, the best that ever you heard in your life. 'Tis a speaking sight,' says he, "and has a voice with it, and a loud one, to call us all to repentance."

3. ...Clarissa drew with tempting grace/A two-edged weapon from her shining case;/So ladies in romance assist their knight,/Present the spear, and arm him for the fight./He takes the gift with rev'rence, and extends/The little engine on his fingers' ends...

4. ...he called his council, who (not to disgrace them, or burlesque the government there) consisted of such notorious villains as Newgate never transported, and possibly originally were such, who understood neither the laws of God or man, and had no sort of principles to make them worthy the name of men, but at the very council table would contradict and fight with one another....

5. ...there was no faith in the white men, or the gods they adored, who instructed them in principles so false that honest men could not live amongst them; though no people professed somuch, none performed so little; that he knew what he had to do, when he dealt with men of honor, but with them a man ought to be eternally on his guard, and never to eat or drink with Christians without his weapon of defense ihis hands and, for his own security, never to credit one word they spoke.

6. ‘Tis wealth alone inspires every grace, /And calls the raptures to her plenteous face./What numbers for those charming features pine,/If blooming acres round her temples twine!/Her lip the strawberry, and her eyes more bright/Than sparkling Venus in a frosty night;/Pale lilies fade, when the fair appears…

7. A wondrous bag with both her hands she binds,/Like that where once Ulysses held the winds;/There she collects the force of female lungs,/Sighs, sobs, and passions, and the war of tongues./A vial next she fills with fainting fears,/Soft sorrows, melting griefs and flowing tears./The Gnome rejoicing bears her gifts away,/Spreads his black wings, and slowly mounts to day.

8. And when the charmer treads her magic toe,/On English ground Arabian odors grow;/Till mighty Hymen lifts his sceptred rod/And sinks her glories with a fatal nod,/Dissolves her triumphs, sweeps her charms away,/And turns the goddess to her native clay.

9. As for the rashness and inconsiderateness of his action he would confess the governor is in the right, and that he was ashamed of what he had done, in endeavoring to make those free, who were by nature slaves, poor wretched rogues, fit to be used as Christians' tools; dogs, treacherous and cowardly, fit for such masters...

10. As, from within Pandora's box,/When Epimethus oped the locks,/A sudden universal crew/Of human evils upward flew

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12. But never did young shepherdess,/Gathering the fern upon the plain,/More nimly draw her fingers back,/Finding beneath the verdant leaves a snake...

13. But trust the muse--she saw it upward rise,/Though marked by none but quick peotic eyes:/(So Rome's great founder to the heav'ns withdrew..../A sudden star, it shot through liquid air,/And drew behind a radiant trail of hair.

14. Did I my lines intend for public view,/How many censures would their faults pursue!/Some would, because such words they do affect, /Cry they’re insipid, empty, uncorrect./And many have attained, dull and untaught/the name of wit, only by finding fault./True judges might condemn their want of wit,/And all might say they’re by a woman writ.

15. Generous man has too much bravery he is too just and too good to assault a defenseless enemy, and if he did inveigh against the women it was only to do them service. For since neither his care of their education, his hearty endeavors to improve their minds, his wholesome precepts, nor great example could do them good, as his last and kindest essay he resolved to try what contempt would do, and chose rather to expose himself by a seeming want of justice, equity, ingenuity, and good nature, than suffer women to remain such vain and insignificant creatures as they have hitherto been reckoned.

16. Here files of pins extend their shining rows,/Puffs, patches, Bibles, billet-doux./Now awful beauty puts on all its arms;/The fair each moment rises in her charms,/Repairs her smiles, awakens ev'ry grace,/And calls forth all the wonders of her face...

17. His face was not of that brown, rusty black which most of that nation are, but a perfect ebony, or polished jet...His nose was rising and Roman, instead of African and flat...

18. I was myself an eyewitness to a great part of what you will find here set down; and what I could not be witness of, I received from the mouth of the chief actor in this history, the hero himself...

19. In pity to our sex sure thou wert sent,/That we might love, and yet be innocent: For sure no crime with thee we can commit;/Or if we should—thy form excuses it.

20. In such loud numbers they his acts declare,/Proclaim the wonders of his early war,/That Saul upon the vast applause does frown,/And feels the mighty thunder shake the crown./What can the threatened judgment now prolong?/Half of the kingdom is already gone:/The fairest half, whose influence guides the rest,/Have David’s empire o’er their hearts confessed.

21. Learn to bear your husband's death like a reasonable woman. 'Tis not the fashion, nowadays, so much as to affect sorrow upon these occasions. No woman would ever marry, if she had not the chance of mortality for a release.

22. Strength of mind goes along with strength of body, and ‘tis only for some odd accidents which philosophers have not yet thought worthwhile to inquire into, that the surdiest porter is not the wisest man.

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24. They are extreme modest and bashful, very shy, and nice of being touched. And though they are all thus naked, if one lives forever among them, there is not to be seen an indecent action or glance; and being continually used to see one another so unadorned, so like our first parents before the Fall, it seems as if they had no wishes...

25. This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and "Lord have mercy upon us" writ there--which was a sad sight to me....It put me into an ill conception of myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll-tobacco to smell to and chaw--which took away the apprehension.

26. Thou treacherous, base deserter of my flame,/False to my passion, fatal to my fame,/Through what mistaken magic dost thou prove/So true to lewdness, so untrue to love?

27. Through the whole piece you may observe such a similitude of manners in high and low life, that it is difficult to determine whether (in the fashionable vices), the fine gentlemen imitate the gentlemen of the road, or the gentlemen of the road the fine gentleman. Had the play remained, as I at first intended, it would have carried a most excellent moral. 'Twould have shown that the lower sort of people have their vices in a degree as well as the rich, and that they are punished for them.

28. What signifies a promise to a woman? Does not man in marriage itself promise a hundred things that he never means to perform? Do all we can, women will believe us; for they look upon a promise as an excuse for following their own inclinations.