Christopher Smart

Quotes

• “Thus when a barber and collier fight,The barber beats the luckless collier—white;The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack,And, big with vengeance, beats the barber—black.In comes the brick-dust man, with grime o’erspread,And beats the collier and the barber—red;Black, red, and white, in various clouds are toss’d,And in the dust they raise the combatants are lost.”
• “Night with all her negro train,Took possession of the plain;In an hearse she rode reclin'd.Drawn by screech-owls slow and blind:Close to her, with printless feet,Crept Stillness in a winding sheet.”
• “Behind him came Health from her cottage of thatch,Where never physician had lifted the latch.”
• “Well of all dogs it stands confess'd,Your English bull dogs are the best.”
• “Too hard for any frog's digestion,To have his froghood call'd in question!”
• “Ma'm, architecture you're not skill'd in,I don't approve your way of building;In this there's nothing like design,Pray learn the use of Gunter's line.”

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