James Smith

James Smith (10 February 1775 – 24 December 1839), along with his younger brother Horace Smith, wrote the Rejected Addresses.

Quotes

• No Drury Lane for you to-day.
  • Rejected Addresses, "The Baby's Début", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• I saw them go: one horse was blind,
  The tails of both hung down behind,
  Their shoes were on their feet.
  • Rejected Addresses, "The Baby's Début", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• Lax in their gaiters, laxer in their gait.
  • The Theatre, reported under James Smith in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

External links

• Works by James Smith at Project Gutenberg
• Rejected Addresses by Horace Smith and James Smith, from Project Gutenberg