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John Donne frasi celebri
Origine: Da Meditazione XVII https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Meditation_XVII in Devozioni per occasioni d'emergenza, Editori Riuniti, Roma, 1994, pp. 112-113.
“Dopo un breve sonno, vegliamo in eterno, | e la morte non sarà più: morte, tu morirai.”
John Donne libro Holy Sonnets
Origine: Da Morte non essere orgogliosa, Holy Sonnets, X.
“Che i nostri affetti non uccidano noi, né muoiano essi.”
Origine: Citato in prefazione a Clive Staples Lewis, I quattro amori, Jaca Book, 1982.
Origine: Da Il sogno.
John Donne Frasi e Citazioni
Origine: Da Elegy, VIII; citato in Giuseppe Fumagalli, Chi l'ha detto?, Hoepli, 1921, p. 296.
“Ma, ahimè, perché così lungamente, | e tanto, freniamo i nostri corpi?”
Origine: Da L'Estasi; citato in Charles Morgan, La fontana, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1961.
Origine: Da Sermone del giorno di Pasqua, 25 marzo 1627.
John Donne: Frasi in inglese
“I am a little world made cunningly
Of elements, and an angelic sprite.”
John Donne libro Holy Sonnets
No. 5, line 1
Holy Sonnets (1633)
“Never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”
Origine: No man is an island – A selection from the prose
The Anniversary, last stanza
Origine: The Complete English Poems
“I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.”
Origine: The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose
“What if this present were the world's last night?”
John Donne libro Holy Sonnets
No. 13, line 1
Holy Sonnets (1633)
Meditation 13
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
“The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.”
Meditation 12
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
“One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.”
John Donne libro Holy Sonnets
No. 10, line 13
Holy Sonnets (1633)
“Let not one bring Learning, another Diligence, another Religion, but every one bring all.”
Meditation 7
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
IV. Mediscque Vocatur; The physician is sent for.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
“Those set our hairs, but these our flesh upright.”
John Donne libro Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed
No. 19, To His Mistress Going to Bed, line 24
Elegies
Divine Poems, "On the Sacrament"; attributed by many writers to Elizabeth I. It is not in the original edition of Donne, but first appears in the edition of 1654, p. 352.
Disputed
Satyre III (c. 1598)
“All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies,
Despair, law, chance, hath slain.”
John Donne libro Holy Sonnets
No. 7, line 6
Holy Sonnets (1633)
IV. Mediscque Vocatur The physician is sent for
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
Break of Day, stanza 1
“Whilst my physicians by their love are grown
Cosmographers, and their map, who lie
Flat on this bed.”
Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness, stanza 2
Song (Go and Catch a Falling Star), stanzas 2-3
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning, stanza 4
