David Garrick: Frasi in inglese
Epigram on Goldsmith’s Retaliation. Vol. ii. p. 157. Compare: "God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat", Thomas Tusser, A Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (1557); "God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks", John Taylor, Works, vol. ii. p. 85 (1630).
Samuel Johnson; carved on Garrick's memorial in Lichfield Cathedral http://www.britannica.com/shakespeare/article-2605 <br class="br">About
Epitaph on Quinn. Murphy’s Life of Garrick. Vol. ii. p. 38.
“Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.”
Prologue to the Gamesters.
“Let others hail the rising sun:
I bow to that whose course is run.”
On the Death of Mr. Pelham. Compare: "Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun", Plutarch, Life of Pompey.
“Their cause I plead,—plead it in heart and mind;
A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.”
Prologue on Quitting the Stage in 1776. Compare: "I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader.
“Prologues like compliments are loss of time;
’T is penning bows and making legs in rhyme.”
Prologue to Crisp’s Tragedy of Virginia.
“Heart of oak are our ships,
Heart of oak are our men;
We always are ready.”
Hearts of Oak. Compare: "Our ships were British oak, And hearts of oak our men", S. J. Arnold, Death of Nelson.
