Kent-Drury
English 202-51
Quotes—Final Exam
1. Against thy charms we struggle but in vain,/With thy deluding form thou giv’st us pain,/While the bright nymph betrays us to the swain.
2. Alas! A woman that attempts the pen, such an intruder on the right of men, such a presumptuous creature is esteemed; the fault can by no virtue be redeemed.
3. As, from within Pandora’s box,/When Epimethus oped the locks,/A sudden universal crew/Of human evils upward flew;
4. Fair lovely maid, or if that title be/Too weak, too feminine for nobler thee,/Permit a name that more approaches truth,/And let me call thee, lovely charming youth.
5. For first, as I have already observed, it would greatly lessen the number of Papists with whom we are yearly overrun, being the principal breeders of the nation as well as our most dangerous enemies.
6. For my own part, I am inclined to this opinion; because it is said that he had killed only four persons; whereas if he had been a vampire of any considerable rank, we should in all probability have heard of his thousands and his ten thousands.
7. For this reason therefore, I shall publish a sheet-full of thoughts every morning, for the benefit of my contemporaries; and if I can any way contribute to the diversion or improvement of the country in which I live, I shall leave it, when I am summoned out of it, with the secret satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain.
8. Gangsters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are devils to their wives.
9. Having finished my speech, which was honored with the strictest attention, I was very much pleased to find it produce the desired effect, by putting an end to the dispute, which occasioned it.
10. He cursed his birth, his fate, his stars;/ But more the shepherdess’s charms,/ Whose soft bewitching influence/Had /damned him to the hell of impotence.
11. He takes the gift with rev’rence, and extends/The little engine on his fingers ends,/This just behind Belinda’s neck he spread,/As over the fragrant steams she bends her head;…
12. His foul imagination links/Each dame he sees with all her stinks: And if unsavory odors fly, Conceives a lady standing by.
13. His gold she takes (such proofs as these Convince most unbelieving shes) And in her trunk rose up to lock it (Too wise to trust it in her pocket).
14. His nose was rising and Roman, instead of African and flat; his mouth, the finest shaped that could be seen, far from those great turned lips which are so natural to the rest of the Negroes.
15. I have observed, that a reader seldom pursues a book with pleasures will he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
16. I knew she was always a proud slut; and now the wench hath played the fool and married, because forsooth she would do like the gentry. Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking, and whoring?
17. I pity wretched Strephon, blind to all the charms of womankind; should I the queen of love refuse because she rose from stinking ooze.
18. I stood and saw the King come in with all the persons (but the soldiers) that were yesterday in the cavalcade; and a most pleasant sight it was to see them in their several robes.
19. I’ll be revenged, you saucy quean’/ (Replies the disappointed Dean)/ ‘I’ll so describe your dressing room/ The very Irish shall not come.’/ She answered short, ‘I’m glad you’ll write. You’ll furnish paper when I shite.’
20. If you must be married, could you introduce nobody into our family but a highwayman? Why, thou foolish jade, thou wilt be as ill-used, and as much neglected, as if thou hadst married a lord!
21. In pity to our sex sure thou were sent, that we might love, and yet innocent: for sure no crime with thee we can commit; or if we should- thy form excuses it.
22. In the clear mirror of thy ruling star I saw, alas! Some dread event impend, ere to main this morning sun descend. But Heav’n reveals not what, or how, or where: Warned by thy Sylph, oh pious maid beware!
23. In this time the Prince, who was returned from hunting, went to visit his Imoinda, but found her gone; and not only so, but heard she had received the royal veil.
24.
It fell out most unhappily too, that a
violent
easterly wind fomented it, and kept it burning all that day, and the night
following spreading itself up to
25. Naked she lay, clasped in my longing arms,/I filled with love, and she all over charms;
26. One day the amorous Lysander,/By an impatient passion swayed,/Surprise fair Cloris, that lovely maid, / Abandoned by her pride and shame,/She does her softest joys dispense,/Offering her virgin innocence/A victim to love’s sacred flame;
27. Since, whether sunk in avarice or pride,/A wanton virgin or a starving bride,/Or wondering crowds attend her charming toungue,/Or, deemed an idiot, ever speaks the wrong;…
28. Some would, because such words they do affect,/ cry they’re insipid, empty, uncorrect.
29.
The clouds also of smoke were dismal, and
reached upon computation near 50 miles in length. Thus I left it this
afternoon
burning, a resemblance of
30. The ordinary course of this paper having been interrupted by a sad and lamentable accident of fire lately happened in the City of London, it hath been thought fit for satisfying the minds of so many of His Majesty’s good subjects, who must needs be concerned for the issue of so great and accident, to give this short but true account of it.
31. The thing, husband, must and shall be done. For the sake of intelligence we must take other measures, and have him peached the next Session without her consent. If she will not know her duty, we know ours.
32. There is likewise another great advantage in my scheme, that it will prevent those voluntary abortions, and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children, alas, too frequent among us, sacrificing the poor innocent babes, I doubt more to avoid the expense than the shame, which would move tears and pity in the most savage and inhuman beast
33.
This day, much against my will, I did in
34. This may serve a little to describe the dreadful condition of that day, though it is not impossible to say anything that is able to give a true idea of it to those who did not see it, other than this; that it was indeed very, very, very dreadful, and such as no tongue can express it .
35. Those who are more thrifty (as I must confess the times require) may flay the carcass, the skin of which, artificially dressed, will make admirable gloves for ladies and summer boots for fine gentleman.
36. Thou treacherous, base deserter of my flame, False to my passion, fatal to my fame, through what mistaken magic dost thou prove, so true to lewdness, so untrue to love?
37. Thus I live in the world, rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species; by which means I have made myself a speculative statesman, soldier, merchant, and artisan, without ever meddling with any practical part in life. .
38. Till mighty Hymen lifts his sceptred rod, and sinks her glories with a fatal nod, Dissolves her triumphs, sweeps her charms away, and turns the goddess to her native clay.
39. Tis not to be imagined the satisfaction of these two young lovers; nor the vows she made him, that she remained a spotless maid till that night; and that what she did with his grandfather had robbed him of no part of her virgin honor…