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  • There's sure no passion in the human soul, But finds its food in music.

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    Passion   Soul   Humans  
    'The Fatal Curiosity' (1736) act 1, sc. 2

  • A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.

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    Real   Men   Light  

  • What shall we call this undetermin'd state, This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless oceans, That whence we came, and that to which we tend?

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    Life   Ocean   Two  
    George Lillo, John HOADLY (LL.D., Dramatic Writer.) (1762). “Arden of Feversham: An Historical Tragedy: Taken from Holingshead's Chronicle, In the Reign of King Edward VI. Acted at the Theatre-Royal, in Drury-Lane. By the Late Mr. Lillo”, p.34

  • Truth is truth, though from an enemy, and spoken in malice.

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    Truth   Enemy   Truth Is  
    John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Banks, John Brown (1796). “British Theatre: Fatal curiosity”, p.73

  • When gratitude o'erflows the swelling heart, and breathes in free and uncorrupted praise for benefits received, propitious heaven takes such acknowledgment as fragrant incense, and doubles all its blessings.

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    Gratitude   Heart   Blessing  
    George Lillo (1810). “Fatal curiosity, a tragedy. Marina, a play. Elmerick; or, Justice triumphant, a tragedy. Britannia and Batavia, a masque. Arden of Feversham, a tragedy”, p.126

  • The firmest purpose of a woman's heart to well-timed, artful flattery may yield.

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    Heart   Yield   Purpose  
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George Lillo

  • Born: February 3, 1691
  • Died: September 4, 1739
  • Occupation: Playwright
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