Quote#Nature
Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of…
Quote byArthur Murphy · 1727–1805
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Apprentice: A Farce in Two Acts (1756)..
English (original)
Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.
— Arthur Murphy
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Thus far we run before the wind.
Above the vulgar flight of common souls.
Picked up his crumbs.
The sunn must lend his goulden beames, Soft windes their breath, green trees their shade, Sweete fields their flowers, cleare springs their streams, Ere such another smyle bee made.
Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Why o'er the waves dost fly? O, rather, bird, with me Through the fair land rejoice!
We'll sport and be free with Moll, Betty, and Dolly, Have oysters and lobsters to cure melancholy: Fish-dinners will make a lass spring like a flea, Dame Venus, love's lady, Was born of the sea.