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Richard Jago
4 quotes
“With leaden foot Time creeps along While Delia is away: With her, nor plaintive was the song, Nor tedious was the day.Ah, envious Pow’r! reverse my doom; Now double thy career, Strain ev’ry nerve, stretch ev’ry plume, And rest them when she’s here!”
Richard Jago (1715–1781) said by 1781 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Absence" in Poems, Moral and Descriptive (1784), p. 171
“O fairest of the feather’d train! For whom I sing, for whom I burn, Attend with pity to my strain, And grant my love a kind return.”
Richard Jago (1715–1781) said by 1781 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No bush shall boast in all the grove So fond a mate, so blest a wife.”
Richard Jago (1715–1781) said by 1781 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Here, gunner, point thy thunder here.”
Richard Jago (1715–1781) first seen 1753 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hawkesworth's Adventurer, no. 37 (13 March 1753)