George Rose (barrister)

Sir George Rose (1 May 1782 – 3 December 1873) was an English barrister and law reporter, a master in chancery. Quotes English Epigrams Reported in William Davenport Adams (ed.) English Epigrams (London, [1878]) Samuel Warren, though able, yet vainest of men, Could he guide with discretion his tongue and his pen, His course would be clear for—"Ten Thousand a Year," But limited else to a brief—"Now and Then." On Samuel Warren, Author of Ten Thousand a Year, Now and Then, and other Novels" Why should Honesty seek any safer retreat    From the lawyers or barges, odd-rot-'em? For the lawyers are just at the top of the street,    And the barges are just at the bottom! "Reply to Smith" [First printed in Barham's Life of Hook (1849), in reply to the following epigram by James Smith, "On Craven Street, Strand": In Craven Street, Strand, ten attorneys find place, And ten dark coal-barges are moored at the base: Fly, Honesty, fly, to some safer retreat; There's craft in the river and craft in the street.] O thou who read'st what 's written here, Commiserate the lot severe,    By which, compell'd, I write them. In vain Sophia I withstand, For Anna adds her dread command;    I tremble—and indite them. Blame Eve, who, feeble to withstand One single devil, rais'd her hand,    And gather'd our damnation; But do not me or Adam blame, Tempted by two, who did the same—    His Wife—and her Relation. "Written in an Album" External links Category:1782 births Category:1873 deaths Category:Lawyers from England Category:University of Cambridge alumni Category:Fellows of the Royal Society