Samuel Daniel è stato un poeta inglese.
“As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind
To look out thorough, and his frailty find. 1”
History of the Civil War (1595), Book iv, Stanza 84, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made", Edmund Waller, Verses upon his Divine Poesy.
“Unless above himself he can
Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!”
To the Countess of Cumberland. Stanza 12, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.”
Samuel Daniel libro Musophilus
Musophilus (1599), Stanza 57, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Delia http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/delia45.htm (1592), Sonnet XLV.
“This is the thing that I was born to do.”
Samuel Daniel libro Musophilus
Musophilus (1599), Stanza 100, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
To the Countess of Cumberland. Stanza 1
Samuel Daniel libro Musophilus
Musophilus (1599), Stanza 163, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Westward the course of empire takes its way", George Berkeley, On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America.
“And for the few that only lend their ear,
That few is all the world.”
Samuel Daniel libro Musophilus
Musophilus (1599), Stanza 97, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
