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John Gay

Data de nascimento: 30. Junho 1685
Data de falecimento: 4. Dezembro 1732

John Gay foi um poeta e dramaturgo inglês do século XVIII.

Com um estilo neoclássico, escreveu poesia no estilo de Milton, farsas e comédias. Ele está enterrado na Abadia de Westminster.

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1685 – 1732

„O orgulho está para o caráter assim como o sótão está para a casa - a parte mais alta é, via de regra, a mais vazia.“

John Gay2

1685 – 1732

„Aquela que nunca amou, nunca viveu.“

John Gay8

English poet and playwright 1685 – 1732

„A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much“The Beggar's Opera

John Gay8

English poet and playwright 1685 – 1732

„My Own Epitaph
Life's a jest, and all things show it.
I thought so once, and now I know it.“

John Gay8

English poet and playwright 1685 – 1732

„Love is so whimsical in both sexes that it is impossible to be lasting. But my heart is particular and contradicts my own observation.“The Beggar's Opera

John Gay8

English poet and playwright 1685 – 1732

„MRS. PEACHUM
How the mother is to be pitied who has handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars and lectures of morality are nothing to them – they break through them all.“The Beggar's Opera

John Gay8

English poet and playwright 1685 – 1732

„Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it.“

John Gay8

English poet and playwright 1685 – 1732

„Gulliver was soon being read "from the cabinet council to the nursery".“

John Gay8

English poet and playwright 1685 – 1732

„Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow, In books and love the mind one end pursues, And only change the expiring flames renews.“

John Gay8

English poet and playwright 1685 – 1732

„... money is made for the free-hearted and generous, and where is the injury of taking from another, what he hath not the heart to make use of?“

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