David Mallet (writer)

David Mallet (or Malloch; c. 1705 – 21 April 1765) was a Scottish poet and dramatist.

Quotations

• O grant me, Heaven, a middle state,
  Neither too humble nor too great;
  More than enough, for nature's ends,
  With something left to treat my friends.
  • "Horace, Epistle XIII. Book I. imitated", l. 132. Unattributed in The London Magazine, vol. 2 (August 1784) p. 125. Attributed to Mallet in John F. Addington (ed.) Poetical Quotations (Philadelphia: John Grigg, 1829) p. 172, no. 18

    Horace, Satires, bk. 2, no. 6, ll. 1–3 (Hoc erat in votis)

Alfred (1740)

Libretto, co-written with James Thomson

• Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue:
  Where patience, honour, sweet humanity,
  Calm fortitude, take root, and strongly flourish.

• Who has not known ill fortune, never knew
  Himself, or his own virtue.

• The human race are sons of sorrow born;
  And each must have his portion. Vulgar minds
  Refuse or cranch beneath their load: the brave
  Bear theirs without repining.

External links

• Encyclopedic article on David Mallet (writer) on Wikipedia