Aaron Hill Quotes - Page 2

• O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.

  Aaron Hill

  Heart, Hands, Matrimony

  Aaron Hill (1760). “Muses in mourning. Zara, to which is added, an interlude, never before printed. Snake in the grass. Alzira. Saul. Daraxes. Merope. Roman revenge. Insolvent. Some love letters, by the author”, p.147

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• Trust me--with women worth the being won,
  The softest lover ever best succeeds.

  Aaron Hill

  Succeed, Lovers, Trust Me

  Aaron Hill (1791). “Alzira: A Tragedy”, p.19

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• When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine, See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd, The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd.

  Aaron Hill

  Wine, Water, Red

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• Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.

  Aaron Hill

  Art, Looks, Deceiving

  Aaron Hill (1760). “Works”, p.64

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• Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish.

  Aaron Hill

  Joy, Wish, Knows

  Thomas Otway, Aaron Hill, Nicholas Rowe, Arthur Murphy (1817). “Tragedy of the Orphan; Or, the Unhappy Marriage with a Critique by Richard Cumberland”

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