24 ordspråk av George Crabbe
George Crabbe
George Crabbe föddes den
December 24th 1754 och dog den 3 February
1832 - of poems and verse tales memorable for their realistic details of everyday life.
Mer info via Google eller Bing. A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.
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A master-passion is the love of news.
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A master-passion is the love of news.
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And took for truth the test of ridicule.
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Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way
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Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved
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Books cannot always please, however good;/ Minds are not ever craving for their food.
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But 'twas a maxim he had often tried, / That right was right, and there he would abide.
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Feed the musician, and he's out of tune
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Feed the musician, and he's out of tune
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In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide.
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Oh! rather give me commentators plain, / Who with no deep researches vex the brain; / Who from the dark and doubtful love to run, / And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun.
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Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain
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The game is never lost till won.
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The ring so worn, as you behold, / So thin, so pale, is yet of gold.
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