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• [Gulliver was soon being read] "from the cabinet council to the nursery".

  John Gay

  Nurse, Gulliver, Cabinets

  "The 100 best novels, No 3 - Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726)" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2013.

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• In every age and clime we see Two of a trade can never agree.

  John Gay

  Agreement, Two, Age

  John Gay (1863). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: With a Life of the Author”, p.47

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• To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride: Let Nature guide thee; sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail.

  John Gay

  Pride, Gay, Animal

  John Gay (1926). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: Including 'Polly', 'The Beggar's Opera' and Selections from the Other Dramatic Work”

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• Here Shock, the pride of all his kind, is laid, Who fawned like man, but ne'er like man betrayed.

  John Gay

  Friendship, Dog, Pride

  John Gay, “An Elegy On A Lap-Dog”

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• Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judged a partner in the trade.

  John Gay

  Knaves, Made, Partners

  John Gay, O. F. Owen (1857). “The fables of John Gay illustrated”, p.80

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• O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.

  John Gay

  Flirty, Kissing, Flirting

  John Christopher Pepusch, John Gay (1962). “The beggar's opera”, Barrons Educational Series Inc

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• Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us,
  And fires us
  With courage, love and joy.
  Women and wine should life employ.
  Is there ought else on earth desirous?

  John Gay

  Life, Courage, Wine

  'The Beggar's Opera' (1728) act 2, sc. 1, air 19

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• My lodging is on the cold ground, And hard, very hard, is my fare, But that which grieves me more Is the coldness of my dear.

  John Gay

  Grieving, Cold, Dear

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• No author ever spar'd a brother.

  John Gay

  Brother

  John Gay (1799). “Fables by John Gay, with a Life of the Author”, p.55

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• Were I laid on Greenland's Coast, And in my Arms embrac'd my Lass; Warm amidst eternal Frost, Too soon the Half Year's Night would pass.

  John Gay

  Night, Years, Frost

  John Gay (1782). “The Beggar's Opera”, p.19

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• A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.

  John Gay

  Gentleman, World, Rogues

  John Gay (2013). “The Beggar's Opera and Polly”, p.59, OUP Oxford

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• Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.

  John Gay

  Love, Hate, Alcohol

  John Gay (2013). “The Beggar's Opera and Polly”, p.55, OUP Oxford

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• Breathe soft, ye winds! ye waves, in silence sleep!

  John Gay

  Peace, Sleep, Wind

  John Gay (1806). “The Poetical Works”, p.5

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• Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine, No blood of living insect stain my line; Let me, less cruel, cast the feather'd hook, With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook, Silent along the mazy margin stray, And with the fur-wrought fly delude the prey.

  John Gay

  Fishing, Rivers, Lakes

  John Gay (1770). “The works of Mr. John Gay: In four volumes. To which is added an account of the life and writings of the author ...”, p.27

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• To shoot at crows is powder flung away.

  John Gay

  Crow, Powder

  John Gay (1863). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: With a Life of the Author”, p.111

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• Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined.

  John Gay

  Rocks, Wind, Sea

  John Gay (1822). “The Poems of John Gay ...”, p.251

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• The careful insect 'midst his works I view,
  Now from the flowers exhaust the fragrant dew,
  With golden treasures load his little thighs,
  And steer his distant journey through the skies.

  John Gay

  Flower, Journey, Views

  John Gay (1863). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: With a Life of the Author”, p.188

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• I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I! "Not of the importance you suppose," Replies a Flea upon his nose; "Be humble, learn thyself to scan; Know, pride was never made for man.

  John Gay

  Humble, Pride, Men

  John Gay, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:”, p.83

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• Who hath not heard the rich complain Of surfeits, and corporeal pain? He barr'd from every use of wealth, Envies the ploughman's strength and health.

  John Gay

  Pain, Envy, Complaining

  John Gay (1822). “The Poems of John Gay ...”, p.163

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• Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow, In books and love the mind one end pursues, And only change the expiring flames renews.

  John Gay

  Book, Flames, Joy

  John Gay (1863). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: With a Life of the Author”, p.129

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• I never, with important air, In conversation overbear. . . . . My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks much must talk in vain.

  John Gay

  Air, Important, Tongue

  John Gay (1808). “Gay's Fables: In One Volume Complete”, p.8

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• So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.

  John Gay

  Men, Results, Banquets

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