Skip to content
Aaron Hill

Image by Oliver_Nguyen on Pixabay · Pixabay License

EntityQ1647198· pop 11· linked from 106 articles

Aaron Hill

Sign in to save

British writer (1685-1750)

Person · Open Library

Works
47

Top works

  • Of Genius', in the Occasional Paper, and Preface to the Creation
  • Insolvent
  • Tears of the Muses
  • 'of Genius', in the Occasional Paper, and Preface to the Creation
  • Gideon; or, the Patriot. an Epic Poem

via Open Library + Wikidata

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
80
Total plays
944

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Aaron+Hill">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Aaron Hill

Quotes

  • Yours is the guilt of all, who, judging wrong,Mistake tuned nonsense for the poet's song!Provoking dulness!—what a soul has heWho fancies rhyme, and measure, poetry!—He thinks, profanely, that this generous artStops at the ear—with power to shake the heart.
  • O'er Nature's laws, God cast the veil of night, Out blaz'd a Newton's soul — and all was light.
  • Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.
  • Tender-handed stroke a nettle,And it stings you for your pains;Grasp it like a man of mettle,And it soft as silk remains.’Tis the same with common natures:Use ’em kindly, they rebel;But be rough as nutmeg-graters,And the rogues obey you well.
  • You talk no more of that gay nation now, Where men adore their wives, and woman's power Draws reverence from a polished people's softness, Their husbands' equals, and their lovers' queens; Free without scandal; wise without restraint; Their virtue due to nature, not to fear.
  • Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish.

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

Available in 8 languages

via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0