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Elijah Fenton Quotes

Wedded love is founded on esteem.

Wedded love is founded on esteem.

John Banks, Elijah Fenton, Colley Cibber, Edward I Young (1777). “The Albion Queens, Or the Death of Mary Queen of Scots, a Tragedy”

O blissful poverty! Nature, too partial! to thy lot assigns Health, freedom, innocence, and downy peace, Her real goods; and only mocks the great, With empty pageantries!

Edmund Smith, Mr. John Dryden, Mr. Elijah Fenton, Richard Steele (1750). “A Select Collection of the Best Modern English Plays: Vol. VI.”, p.61

Those elegant delights of jig and vaulting.

William Congreve, Elijah Fenton (1779). “The Works of the English Poets”, p.333