Frases de John Gay
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.
Citações John Gay
„A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much“
— John Gay, The Beggar's Opera
„Lest men suspect your tale untrue,
Keep probability in view.“
— John Gay
Fable, The Painter who pleased Nobody and Everybody
„While there is life there 's hope, he cried.“
— John Gay
Fable, The Sick Man and the Angel
Comparable to: "For the living there is hope, but for the dead there is none", Theocritus (3rd century BC), Idyl iv, 42; "Ægroto, dum anima est, spes est" ("While the sick man has life, there is hope", Cicero (1st century BC), Epistolarum ad Atticum, ix, 10
„Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!“
— John Gay
Lucy, Act II, sc. xiii
„The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.“
— John Gay
Act II, scene ii
„If Poverty be a Title to Poetry, I am sure nobody can dispute mine. I own myself of the Company of Beggars; and I make one at their Weekly Festivals at St. Giles's. I have a small Yearly Salary for my Catches, and am welcome to a Dinner there whenever I please, which is more than most Poets can say.“
— John Gay
"Beggar", Introduction
„Give me, kind Heaven, a private station,
A mind serene for contemplation:
Title and profit I resign;
The post of honour shall be mine.“
— John Gay
The Vulture, the Sparrow, and other Birds. Comparable to: "When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station", Joseph Addison, Cato, Act iv, scene 4
„Adieu, she cried, and waved her lily hand.“
— John Gay
Sweet William's Farewell to Black-eyed Susan, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
„How happy could I be with either,
Were t'other dear charmer away!“
— John Gay
Macheath, Act II, sc. xiii, air 35
„So comes a reckoning when the banquet's o'er,—
The dreadful reckoning, and men smile no more.“
— John Gay
The What d' ye call it (1715). Comparable to: "The time of paying a shot in a tavern among good fellows, or Pantagruelists, is still called in France a 'quart d'heure de Rabelais,'—that is, Rabelais's quarter of an hour, when a man is uneasy or melancholy", Life of Rabelais (Bohn's edition), p. 13
„That raven on yon left-hand oak
(Curse on his ill-betiding croak!)
Bodes me no good.“
— John Gay
Fable, The Farmer's Wife and the Raven. Comparable to: "It wasn't for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand", Plautus, Aulularia, act iv. sc. 3
„Through all the Employments of Life
Each Neighbour abuses his Brother;
Whore and Rogue they call Husband and Wife:
All Professions be-rogue one another:
The Priest calls the Lawyer a Cheat,
The Lawyer be-knaves the Divine:
And the Statesman, because he's so great,
Thinks his Trade as honest as mine.“
— John Gay
Peachum, Act I, air 1
