Isaac Bickerstaffe quotes

Hope! thou nurse of young desire. (Isaac Bickerstaffe)
Young fellows will be young fellows. View quote
Isaac Bickerstaffe
Fine feathers, they say, make fine birds. View quote
Isaac Bickerstaffe
Tis a sure sign work goes on merrily, when folks sing at it. View quote
Isaac Bickerstaffe
There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the river Dee; He worked and sung from morn till night: No lark more blithe than he. View quote
Isaac Bickerstaffe
Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But - why did you kick me downstairs? View quote
Isaac Bickerstaffe
Ay, do despise me! I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised. View quote
Isaac Bickerstaffe
Health is the greatest of all possessions; a pale cobbler is better than a sick king. View quote
Isaac Bickerstaffe
By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty. View quote
Isaac Bickerstaffe
And this the burden of his song Forever used to be,- I care for nobody, no, not I, If no one cares for me. View quote
Isaac Bickerstaffe