SGSamuel Garth

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Samuel Garth

Life dates: 1670 AD — 1719 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1694 AD

To die is landing on some silent shore Where billows never break, nor tempests roar; Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 't is o'er.

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02c. 1694 AD

I see the right, and I approve it too, Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue.

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03c. 1694 AD

For all their luxury was doing good.

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04c. 1694 AD

As distant prospects please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air.

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