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''Thou strange piece of wild nature!''
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Colley Cibber (1671-1757), British actor-manager, playwright. Lord Wronglove to Lord George, in The Lady's Last Stake, act. 1, sc. 1.
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''Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.''
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Colley Cibber (1671-1757), British actor-manager, playwright. Narcissa, in Love's Last Shift, act 2, sc. 1.
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''You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.''
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Colley Cibber (1671-1757), British actor-manager, playwright. repr. In Dramatic Works (1966). Narcissa, in Love's Last Shift, act 2, sc. 1 (1696).
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''Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.''
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Colley Cibber (1671-1757), British actor-manager, playwright. Tamira, in Xerxes, act 4, sc. 3.
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''Then let not what I cannot have
My cheer of mind destroy.
Whilst thus I sing, I am a king,
Although a poor blind boy!''
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Colley Cibber (1671-1757), British writer. The Blind Boy (l. 17-20). . .
Oxford Book of Children's Verse, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, eds. (197...
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Tea! Thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, thou innocent pretence for bringing the wicked of both sexes together in a morning; thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart- opening,...
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Colley Cibber (1671-1757), British actor-manager, playwright. Lord George, in The Lady's Last Stake, act 1, sc. 1.
Lord George's "happiest moment"...
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The Blind Boy
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O SAY what is that thing call’d Light,
Which I must ne’er enjoy;
What are the blessings of the sight,
O tell your poor blind boy!
You talk of wondrous things you see,
You say the sun shines bright;
I feel him warm, but how can he
Or make it day or night?
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