Frases de Matthew Prior

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✵ 21. Julho 1664 – 18. Setembro 1721
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Matthew Prior: Frases em inglês

“They never taste who always drink;
They always talk who never think.”

Upon a passage in the Scaligerana; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“All jargon of the schools.”

I am that I am, An Ode; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“From ignorance our comfort flows.
The only wretched are the wise.”

To the Honorable Charles Montague (1692).

“That air and harmony of shape express,
Fine by degrees, and beautifully less.”

Henry and Emma; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.”

Carmen Seculare http://books.google.com/books?id=gtYWAAAAQAAJ&q="Forbear+to+mention+what+thou+canst+not+praise"&pg=PA157#v=onepage (1700).

“A Rechabite poor Will must live,
And drink of Adam's ale.”

The Wandering Pilgrim.; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Abra was ready ere I called her name;
And though I called another, Abra came.”

Solomon on the Vanity of the World, book ii, line 364; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“The end must justify the means.”

Hans Carvel (1700).

“Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?”

A Better Answer; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“For hope is but the dream of those that wake.”

Solomon on the Vanity of the World, book iii, line 102; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn;
And he alone is bless'd who ne'er was born.”

Solomon on the Vanity of the World, book iii, line 240; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Cured yesterday of my disease,
I died last night of my physician.”

The Remedy Worse than the Disease (1714).