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W. S. Gilbert
Data de nascimento: 18. Novembro 1836
Data de falecimento: 29. Maio 1911
Outros nomes:Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
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William Schwenck Gilbert, Kt. foi um dramaturgo, libretista e ilustrador do Reino Unido.
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Citações W. S. Gilbert
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„Roll on, thou ball, roll on
Through pathless realms of space,
Roll on!“
— W. S. Gilbert
To the Terrestrial Globe.
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„He is an Englishman!
For he himself has said it,
And it's greatly to his credit,
That he is an Englishman!.
For he might have been a Rooshian
A French or Turk or Proosian,
Or perhaps Itali-an.
But in spite of all temptations
To belong to other nations,
He remains an Englishman.“
— W. S. Gilbert
The Englishman (from HMS Pinafore).
„Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your languid spleen,
An attachment à la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a not-too-French French bean!
Though the Philistines may jostle, you will rank as an apostle in the high aesthetic band,
If you walk down Piccadilly with a poppy or a lily in your medieval hand.“
— W. S. Gilbert
Act I
„Ah, take one consideration with another
A policeman's lot is not a happy one!“
— W. S. Gilbert
The Policeman's Lot (from The Pirates of Penzance).
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„There's a little group of isles beyond the wave,
So tiny you might almost wonder where it is—
That nation is the bravest of the brave,
And cowards are the rarest of all rarities.
The proudest nations kneel at her command,
She terrifies all foreign-born rap-scallions;
And holds the peace of Europe in her hand
With half a score invincible battalions.“
— W. S. Gilbert
Final chorus.
