Frases de John Gay
John Gay
Fecha de nacimiento: 30. Junio 1685
Fecha de muerte: 4. Diciembre 1732
John Gay fue un poeta y dramaturgo inglés, conocido como el primero en escribir en su idioma materno fábulas en verso. Wikipedia
Frases John Gay
„Whence thy learning? Hath thy toil
O'er books consumed the midnight oil?“
— John Gay
Introduction, "The Shepherd and the Philosopher"; "Midnight oil" was a common phrase, used by Quarles, Shenstone, Cowper, Lloyd, and others.
Fables (1727)
„That raven on yon left-hand oak
(Curse on his ill-betiding croak!)
Bodes me no good.“
— John Gay
Fable, The Farmer's Wife and the Raven. Comparable to: "It wasn't for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand", Plautus, Aulularia, act iv. sc. 3
Fables (1727)
„Lest men suspect your tale untrue,
Keep probability in view.“
— John Gay
Fable, The Painter who pleased Nobody and Everybody
Fables (1727)
„Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!“
— John Gay
Lucy, Act II, sc. xiii
The Beggar's Opera (1728)
„Were I laid on Greenland’s Coast,
And in my Arms embrac’d my Lass;
Warm amidst eternal Frost,
Too soon the Half Year’s Night would pass.“
— John Gay
Act I, sc. xxxiii, air 16
The Beggar's Opera (1728)
„How happy could I be with either,
Were t' other dear charmer away!“
— John Gay
Act II, scene ii
The Beggar's Opera (1728)
Variante: How happy could I be with either,
Were t' other dear charmer away!
„Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us,
And fires us
With courage, love and joy.
Women and wine should life employ.
Is there ought else on earth desirous?“
— John Gay
Matt, Act II, sc. i, air 19
The Beggar's Opera (1728)
„The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.“
— John Gay
Act II, scene ii
The Beggar's Opera (1728)
