Mermaid Series - The Complete Plays of Richard Steele

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“It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)

“Let’s holler and ask him if he won’t prescribe
For all humanity a complete rest
From all this wagery. But what’s the use
Of asking any sympathy of him?
That class of people don’t know what work is....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“Say that it is the serenade
Of a man that plays a blue guitar.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

“An Author, when he first appears in the World, is very apt to believe it has nothing to think of but his Performances.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)