George Lillo quotes
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“What shall we call this undetermin'd state, This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless oceans, That whence we came, and that to which we tend?”
-- George LilloSource : George Lillo, John HOADLY (LL.D., Dramatic Writer.) (1762). “Arden of Feversham: An Historical Tragedy: Taken from Holingshead's Chronicle, In the Reign of King Edward VI. Acted at the Theatre-Royal, in Drury-Lane. By the Late Mr. Lillo”, p.34
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“When gratitude o'erflows the swelling heart, and breathes in free and uncorrupted praise for benefits received, propitious heaven takes such acknowledgment as fragrant incense, and doubles all its blessings.”
-- George LilloSource : George Lillo (1810). “Fatal curiosity, a tragedy. Marina, a play. Elmerick; or, Justice triumphant, a tragedy. Britannia and Batavia, a masque. Arden of Feversham, a tragedy”, p.126
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“There's sure no passion in the human soul, But finds its food in music.”
-- George LilloSource : 'The Fatal Curiosity' (1736) act 1, sc. 2
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“A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.”
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“The firmest purpose of a woman's heart to well-timed, artful flattery may yield.”
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“Truth is truth, though from an enemy, and spoken in malice.”
-- George LilloSource : John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Banks, John Brown (1796). “British Theatre: Fatal curiosity”, p.73
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Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.195, Thomas Nelson Inc
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Source : Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”
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“If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.”
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