John Gay was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), set to music by Johann Christoph Pepusch.
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Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest. Go to Quote / Comment
No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat. Go to Quote / Comment
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits. Go to Quote / Comment
How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards. Go to Quote / Comment
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise. Go to Quote / Comment