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Christopher Smart

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Also known as Mrs Mary Midnight, Ebenezer Pentweazle, Mary Midnight

English poet, hymnwriter, editor

Person · Open Library

Works
22

Top works

  • POEMS
  • Fables
  • Hymns for the Amusement of Children
  • World Displayed; or, a Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels, Selected from the Writers of All Nations
  • Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
38
Total plays
116

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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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Christopher Smart
date of birth
1722-04-11
date of death
1771-05-20
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pseudonym
Mary Midnight
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name in native language
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Works in European collections

2 objects attributed to Christopher Smart, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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