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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['T]is the talk, and not the intrigue, that's the crime.

The She-Gallants (1695)

In quiet shades, content with rural sports,
Give me a life, remote from guilty courts,
Where free from hopes, or fears, in humble ease,
Unheard of I may live, and die in peace.

Poems upon Several Occasions (1712)

No vengeance like a woman's.

Heroick Love (1702)

Oh my lov'd friend! till now I never knew
The pangs of parting friendship.
At distance I have tasted of the pain,
When the rude morn has sundered us away,
To our repose: but by my soul, I swear
Even then my eyes would drop a silent tear,
Repugnant still to close, and shut out thee.

The Jew of Venice (1701)

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