George Rose (barrister)

Sir George Rose (1 May 1782 – 3 December 1873) was an English barrister and law reporter, a master in chancery.

Quotes

English Epigrams

Reported in William Davenport Adams (ed.) English Epigrams (London, [1878])

• Samuel Warren, though able, yet vainest of men,
  Could he guide with discretion his tongue and his pen,
  His course would be clear for—"Ten Thousand a Year,"
  But limited else to a brief—"Now and Then."
  • On Samuel Warren, Author of Ten Thousand a Year, Now and Then, and other Novels"

• Why should Honesty seek any safer retreat
     From the lawyers or barges, odd-rot-'em?
  For the lawyers are just at the top of the street,
     And the barges are just at the bottom!
  • "Reply to Smith"
  • [First printed in Barham's Life of Hook (1849), in reply to the following epigram by James Smith, "On Craven Street, Strand":

    In Craven Street, Strand, ten attorneys find place,
    And ten dark coal-barges are moored at the base:
    Fly, Honesty, fly, to some safer retreat;
    There's craft in the river and craft in the street.]

• O thou who read'st what 's written here,
  Commiserate the lot severe,
     By which, compell'd, I write them.
  In vain Sophia I withstand,
  For Anna adds her dread command;
     I tremble—and indite them.
  Blame Eve, who, feeble to withstand
  One single devil, rais'd her hand,
     And gather'd our damnation;
  But do not me or Adam blame,
  Tempted by two, who did the same—
     His Wife—and her Relation.
  • "Written in an Album"

External links

• Encyclopedic article on George Rose (barrister) on Wikipedia