Samuel Bishop
British writer
Samuel Bishop (21 September 1731 – 17 November 1795) was an English poet, clergyman and teacher.
Quotes
edit- The Poetical Works of the Rev. Samuel Bishop, 2 vols. (London: A Strahan, 1796)
- In myriad swarms, each summer sun
An insect nation shows;
Whose being, since he rose, begun;
And e’er he sets will close.Brief is their date, confin’d their pow’rs,
The fluttering of a day;—
Yet life’s worth living, ev’n for hours,
When all those hours—are play.- "Epigram XL. Fati valet hora benigni". Vol. II, p. 192.
- Cf. Juvenal, XVI, 4.
- A Fool and Knave, with different views,
For Julia’s hand apply:
The Knave, to mend his fortune sues:
The Fool, to please his eye.Ask you, how JULIA will behave?
Depend on’t for a rule,
If she’s a Fool, she’ll wed the Knave—
If she’s a Knave, the Fool.- "Epigram CCI. Sub judice lis est". Vol. II, p. 304
- Cf. Horace, Ars Poetica, 78.