Samuel Bishop

Samuel Bishop (21 September 1731 – 17 November 1795) was an English poet, clergyman and teacher.

Quotes

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.