Isaac Bickerstaffe Quotes

• Hope! thou nurse of young desire.

  Isaac Bickerstaffe

  Hope, Nurse, Desire

  Isaac Bickerstaffe (1791). “Love in a village: a comic opera”, p.1

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• But if I'm content with a little, Enough is as good as a feast.

  Isaac Bickerstaffe

  Littles, Enough, Ifs

  Nicholas Rowe, David Garrick, Charles Dibdin, Isaac Bickerstaffe, Charles Macklin (1818). “Lady Jane Grey. A Tragedy: 7”

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• Fine feathers, they say, make fine birds.

  Isaac Bickerstaffe

  Bird, Fine, Fine Feathers

  Isaac BICKERSTAFFE (1825). “The Padlock, etc”, p.10

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• Young fellows will be young fellows.

  Isaac Bickerstaffe

  Young, Fellows, Be Young

  Isaac Bickerstaffe (1818). “Love in a village, a comic opera. Oxberry's ed”, p.32

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• There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the River Dee; He worked and sang, from morn to night; No lark so blithe as he. And this the burden of his song, Forever used to be, "I care for nobody, not I, If no one cares for me.

  Isaac Bickerstaffe

  Song, Night, Rivers

  Love in aVillage act 1, sc. 2 (1762)

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• How happy is the sailor's life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every land a home.

  Isaac Bickerstaffe

  Home, Land, Wife

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• Tis a sure sign work goes on merrily, when folks sing at it.

  Isaac Bickerstaffe

  Goes On, Folks

  Isaac Bickerstaffe, Newbery (1767). “The Maid of the Mill. A Comic Opera. As it is Performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. By the Author of Love in a Village. A New Edition”, p.7

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• The greatness that would make us grave,
  Is but an empty thing.
  What more than mirth would mortals have?
  The cheerful man's a king.

  Isaac Bickerstaffe

  Kings, Greatness, Men

  Isaac BICKERSTAFFE (1814). “Love in a Village ... As performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. Printed ... from the prompt book. With remarks by Mrs. Inchbald”, p.14

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