Top 15 George Colman the Younger Quotes

Johnson's style was grand and Gibbon’s elegant; the stateliness of the former was sometimes pedantic, and the polish of the latter was occasionally finical. Johnson marched to kettle-drums and trumpets. Gibbon moved to flutes and hautboys. Johnson hewed passages through the Alps, while Gibbon levelled walks through parks and gardens.

Mynheer Vandunck, though he never was drunk,
Sipped brandy and water gayly.

As the lone Angler, patient man,
At Mewry-Water, or the Banne,
Leaves off, against his placid wish,
Impaling worms to torture fish

Three stories high, long, dull, and old,
As great lords' stories often are.

And what's impossible can't be,
And never, never comes to pass.

His heart runs away with his head.

Says he, 'I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver.'

Oh, Miss Bailey! Unfortunate Miss Bailey!

Thank you, good sir, I owe you one.

'Tis a very fine thing to be father-in-law
To a very magnificent three-tailed Bashaw!

And, on the label of the stuff,
He wrote this verse;
Which one would think was clear enough,
And terse:—
When taken,
To be well shaken.

But when ill indeed,
E'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.

On their own merits modest men are dumb.

Not to be sneezed at.