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Thomas John Dibdin
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“Daddy Neptune one day to Freedom did say, If ever I live upon dry land, The spot I should hit on wou'd be little Britain! Says Freedom, "Why that's my own island!" O, it's a snug little island! A right little, tight little island, Search the globe round, none can be found So happy as this little island.”
Thomas John Dibdin (1771–1841) first seen 1797 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Snug Little Island", st. 1. The British Raft (c. 1797). Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth, DNB, vol. 15 (1888) p. 10:—"At Canterbury [Dibdin] wrote The British Raft, ridiculing the threatened French invasion, and its one son…
“Then a very great war man, call'd Billy the Norman, Cried "D--n it, I never lik'd my land.”
Thomas John Dibdin (1771–1841) said by 1841 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Dons came to plunder the island; But, snug in the hive, the Queen was alive, And "buzz" was the word in the island.”
Thomas John Dibdin (1771–1841) said by 1841 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Longing while living for laurel and bays, Under this willow a poor poet 'lays'; With little to censure, and less to praise, He wrote twelve dozen and three score plays: He finish'd his 'Life', and he went his ways.”
Thomas John Dibdin (1771–1841) said by 1841 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Epitaph for himself, written in the Ad Libitum Club. DNB, vol. 15 (1888) p. 11