“Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.”
The Apprentice: A Farce in Two Acts (1756).
Arthur Murphy era escritor irlandés.

“Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.”
The Apprentice: A Farce in Two Acts (1756).
“Above the vulgar flight of common souls.”
Zenobia (1768), Act v.
“Thus far we run before the wind.”
The Apprentice: A Farce in Two Acts (1756), Act v. Sc. 1.
The Upholsterer; or, What News? (1757-58), Act i.