Fate holds the strings, and men like children move
But as they're led: success is from above.
George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne Quotes
1666–1735 England
George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne (9 March 1666 – 29 January 1735) was an English poet, playwright, and politician who served as a Privy Counsellor from 1712.
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Also known as: George Granville
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The kiss you take, is paid by that you give:
The joy is mutual, and I'm still in debt.
Heroick Love (1702)
Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give,
And study how to die, not how to live.
Poems upon Several Occasions (1712)
Beauty by no complexion is defin'd,
Is of all colours, and to none confin'd.
Poems upon Several Occasions (1712)
Whoe'er thou art, thy Lord and master see,
Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be.
Youth is the proper time for love,
And age is virtue's season.
Poems upon Several Occasions (1712)
Love is a plant of the most tender kind,
That shrinks and shakes with ev'ry ruffling wind.
The British Enchanters (1705)
Marriage the happiest bond of love might be,
If hands were only join'd when hearts agree.
The British Enchanters (1705)
Who to a woman trusts his peace of mind,
Trusts a frail bark, with a tempestuous wind.
The British Enchanters (1705)
Patience is the virtue of a beast
That trots beneath his burden and is quiet.
Heroick Love (1702)
Love is a subject to himself alone,
And knows no other empire than his own.
The British Enchanters (1705)
Of all pains, the greatest pain
Is to love, and love in vain.
The British Enchanters (1705)
Poems upon Several Occasions (1712)
She will, and she will not, she grants, denies,
Consents, retracts, advances, and then flies.
The British Enchanters (1705)
Bright as the day, and like the morning, fair,
Such Cloe is—and common as the air.
Poems upon Several Occasions (1712)
Important truths still let your fable hold,
And moral mysteries with art unfold.
Poems upon Several Occasions (1712)
The British Enchanters (1705)
I'll be this abject thing no more,
Love, give me back my heart again.
Poems upon Several Occasions (1712)
A villain, when he seems most kind,
Is most to be suspected.
The Jew of Venice (1701)
Epistle to Mrs. Elizabeth Higgons (1690)
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