Henry Carey
English composer and playwright (1687-1743)
Henry Carey (c. August 26, 1687 – October 5, 1743) was an English poet, dramatist and song-writer. He is remembered as an anti-Walpolean satirist and also as a patriot. Several of his melodies continue to be sung today, and he was widely praised in the generation after his death.
Quotes
edit- God save our gracious king!
Long live our noble king!
God save the king!- "God Save the King" (1730).
- Genteel in personage,
Conduct, and equipage;
Noble by heritage,
Generous and free.- The Contrivances (1715), Act i. Sc. 2.
- What a monstrous tail our cat has got!
- The Dragon of Wantley (1737), Act ii. Sc. 1.
- Of all the girls that are so smart,
There's none like pretty Sally.- Sally in our Alley (c. 1725). Compare: "Of all the girls that e’er was seen, There's none so fine as Nelly", Jonathan Swift, Ballad on Miss Nelly Bennet.
- Of all the days that's in the week
I dearly love but one day,
And that's the day that comes betwixt
A Saturday and Monday.- Sally in our Alley (c. 1725).
Chrononhotonthologos (1734)
edit- Aldeborontiphoscophornio!
Where left you Chrononhotonthologos?- Act i. Sc. 1.
- His cogitative faculties immersed
In cogibundity of cogitation.- Act i. Sc. 1.
- Let the singing singers
With vocal voices, most vociferous,
In sweet vociferation out-vociferize
Even sound itself.- Act i. Sc. 1.
- To thee, and gentle Rigdom Funnidos,
Our gratulations flow in streams unbounded.- Act i. Sc. 3.
- The king shall eat, though all mankind be starved.
- Act ii. Sc. 4.
- Go call a coach, and let a coach be called;
And let the man who calleth be the caller;
And in his calling let him nothing call
But “Coach! Coach! Coach! Oh for a coach, ye gods!”- Act ii. Sc. 4.