01c. 1710 ADLife is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it.John Gay / quote ↗
03c. 1710 ADDogmatic jargon, learn'd by heart, / Trite sentences, hard terms of art, / To vulgar ears seem so profound, / They fancy learning in the sound.John Gay / quote ↗
05c. 1710 ADFriendship, like love, is but a name, / Unless to one you stint the flame.John Gay / quote ↗
06c. 1710 ADIf the heart of a man is depressed with cares, / The mist is dispelled when a woman appears.John Gay / quote ↗
10c. 1710 ADThe slack sail shifts from side to side, / The boat, untrimm'd, admits the tide, / Borne down, adrift, at random tost, / The oar breaks short, the rudder's lost.John Gay / quote ↗
13c. 1710 ADI know you lawyers can, with ease, Twist your words and meanings as you please; That language, by your skill made pliant, Will bend to favor every client; That 'tis the fee directs the sense, To make out either side's pretence.John Gay / quote ↗
15c. 1710 ADThe prince, who kept the world in awe, The judge, whose dictate fix’d the law, The rich, the poor, the great, the small, Are levell’d: death confounds them all.John Gay / quote ↗
16c. 1710 ADThe lion craved the fox’s art; The fox the lion’s force and heart; The cock implored the pigeon’s flight, Whose wings were rapid, strong, and light; The pigeon strength of wing despised, And the cock’s matchless valour prized. The fishes wish’d to graze the plain; The beasts to skim beneath the main. Thus, envious of another’s state, Each blam’d the partial hand of fate.John Gay / quote ↗
17c. 1710 ADOh, bane of man! seducing cheat! Can man, weak man, thy power defeat? Gold banish’d honour from the mind, And only left the name behind; Gold sow’d the world with ev’ry ill, Gold taught the murderer’s sword to kill; ’Twas gold instructed coward hearts In treachery’s more pernicious arts.John Gay / quote ↗
18c. 1710 ADConsider man in every sphere, Then tell me is your lot severe? ’Tis murmur, discontent, distrust, That makes you wretched: God is just: We’re born a restless, needy crew; Show me a happier man than you?John Gay / quote ↗
20c. 1710 ADGulliver was soon being read "from the cabinet council to the nursery".John Gay / quote ↗
22c. 1710 ADWho friendship with a knave hath made Is judged a partner in the trade.John Gay / quote ↗
