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Christopher Smart
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“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.”
Christopher Smart (1722–1771) first seen 1747 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Soliloquy of the Princess Periwinkle" in A Trip to Cambridge, or the Grateful Fair, acted during the summer of 1747; printed in Campbell's Specimens of the British Poets, vol. 6 (London: John Murray, 1819) p. 185
“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.”
Christopher Smart (1722–1771) first seen 1748 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ode XIV. A Night-Piece; or, Modern Philosophy (1748)
“Behind him came Health from her cottage of thatch, Where never physician had lifted the latch.”
Christopher Smart (1722–1771) first seen 1750 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Morning Piece" in The Student, vol. 1, no. 7 (30 July 1750) p. 274. Differently quoted in S. Austin Allibone (ed.) Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1876) p. 405:
“Well of all dogs it stands confess'd, Your English bull dogs are the best.”
Christopher Smart (1722–1771) said by 1771 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Too hard for any frog's digestion, To have his froghood call'd in question!”
Christopher Smart (1722–1771) said by 1771 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Christopher Smart (1722–1771) said by 1771 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For the flower glorifies God and the root parries the adversary. For the flowers have their angels even the words of God's Creation.”
Christopher Smart (1722–1771) said by 1771 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.”
Christopher Smart (1722–1771) said by 1771 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry. For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving him.”
Christopher Smart (1722–1771) said by 1771 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For he counteracts the powers of darkness by his electrical skin and glaring eyes. For he counteracts the Devil, who is death, by brisking about the life For in his morning orisons he loves the sun and the sun loves him. For he is of the tribe of Tiger.”
Christopher Smart (1722–1771) said by 1771 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But stronger still, in earth and air, And in the sea, the man of pray'r; And far beneath the tide; And in the seat to faith assigned, Where ask is have, where seek is find, Where knock is open wide.”
Christopher Smart (1722–1771) said by 1771 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Glorious the sun in mid-career; Glorious th' assembled fires appear.”
Christopher Smart (1722–1771) said by 1771 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Glorious the northern lights astream; Glorious the song, when God's the theme; Glorious the thunder's roar: Glorious hosanna from the den; Glorious the catholic amen; Glorious the martyr's gore.”
Christopher Smart (1722–1771) said by 1771 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source