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George Crabbe Frases y Citas
George Crabbe: Frases en inglés
“Habit with him was all the test of truth,
It must be right: I’ve done it from my youth.”
The Borough (1810), Letter iii, "The Vicar", line 138.
“Who calls a lawyer rogue, may find, too late
Upon one of these depends his whole estate.”
Tales iii, "The Gentleman Farmer".
Tales in Verse (1812)
“But 'twas a maxim he had often tried,
That right was right, and there he would abide.”
Tale xv, "The Squire and the Priest". Compare: "For right is right, since God is God", Frederick William Faber, The Right must win.
Tales in Verse (1812)
“In idle wishes fools supinely stay;
Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.”
The Birth of Flattery, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“He tried the luxury of doing good.”
Book iii, "Boys at School". Compare: "And learn the luxury of doing good", Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, Line 22.
Tales of the Hall (1819)
“Time has touched me gently in his race,
And left no odious furrows in my face.”
Book xvii, "The Widow". Compare: "Touch us gently, Time", Bryan W. Procter, Touch us gently, Time; "Time has laid his hand / Upon my heart, gently", Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Golden Legend, iv.
Tales of the Hall (1819)
The Parish Register (1807), Part i, "Introduction". Compare "How commentators each dark passage shun, / And hold their farthing candle to the sun", Edward Young, Love of Fame, Satire vii, Line 97.
“Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.”
Tale xiv, "The Struggles of Conscience". Compare: "'T is better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all", Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxvii.
Tales in Verse (1812)
“Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain,
Like other farmers, flourish and complain.”
The Parish Register (1807), Part 1: "Baptisms", line 273.
“Books cannot always please, however good;
Minds are not ever craving for their food.”
The Borough (1810), Letter xxiv, "Schools".
“Secrets with girls, like loaded guns with boys,
Are never valued till they make a noise.”
"The Maid's Story", line 84 (1819).
Tales of the Hall (1819)
“To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.”
Book iii, "Boys at School". Compare: To sigh, yet feel no pain", Thomas Moore The Blue Stocking.
Tales of the Hall (1819)
Tale vii, "The Widow's Tale".
Tales in Verse (1812)