John Gay
John Gay
John Gaywas an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera, a ballad opera. The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum, became household names...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth30 June 1685
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When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way, He greedily sucks in the twining bait, And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat. Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line! How thy rod bends! behold, the prize is thine!
blood sea fishing
Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine, No blood of living insect stain my line; Let me, less cruel, cast the feather'd hook, With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook, Silent along the mazy margin stray, And with the fur-wrought fly delude the prey.
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Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined.
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What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air, Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare. Blood stuffed in skins is British Christians' food, And France robs marshes of the croaking brood.
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(The bill) doesn't fix the system, it just focuses on enforcement.
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The coquettes of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess
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I know you lawyers can, with ease, twist words and meanings as you please
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We missed some shots during critical times of the game, and we also made some turnovers at crucial times. We're now facing some adversity because we're in jeopardy of not making the state playoffs. But I think our girls can respond to the challenge.
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There is a loud group of anti-immigration folks out there for whom this is the main issue they care about. They make a lot of noise, send e-mails and write and call their congressional representatives.
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Employers are frustrated because there is so much paperwork and oftentimes you don't know if things are real or not.
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But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.
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The brave love mercy, and delight to save.
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She who has never loved has never lived.
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On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.