„Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.“
— John Logan Scottish minister and historian 1748 - 1788
To the Cuckoo, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
„Since what unnumbered year
Hast thou kept watch and ward
And o’er the buried Land of Fear
So grimly held thy guard?“
The Sphynx (published 1864).
Henry Howard Brownell3
American writer and historian 1820 - 1872Citazioni simili
— John Fletcher English Jacobean playwright 1579 - 1625
Act V, scene 5.
The Tragedy of Bonduca (1611–14; published 1647)
„Let not thy mind run on what thou lackest as much as on what thou hast already.“
— Marcus Aurelius, libro Meditations
VII, 27
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
Contesto: Think not so much of what thou hast not as of what thou hast: but of the things which thou hast, select the best, and then reflect how eagerly they would have been sought, if thou hadst them not. At the same time, however, take care that thou dost not, through being so pleased with them, accustom thyself to overvalue them, so as to be disturbed if ever thou shouldst not have them.
— Nicholas Rowe English poet, dramatist 1674 - 1718
Lady Jane Grey (1715), Act II, scene 1, line 235.
— Torquato Tasso Italian poet 1544 - 1595
Canto IV, stanza 39 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
Originale: (co) Principe invitto, disse, il cui gran nome
Sen vola adorno di sì chiari fregi;
Chè l’esser da te vinte, e in guerra dome
Recansi a gloria le provincie e i Regi.
„Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.“
— John Fletcher, The Honest Man's Fortune
Act V, scene 3, line 170.
The Honest Man's Fortune, (1613; published 1647)
„Since Thou hast regarded me,
Grace and beauty hast Thou given me.“
— John of the Cross Spanish mystic and Roman Catholic saint 1542 - 1591
Spiritual Canticle of The Soul and The Bridegroom
Contesto: Despise me not,
For if I was swarthy once
Thou canst regard me now;
Since Thou hast regarded me,
Grace and beauty hast Thou given me. ~ 33
— Metrodorus of Lampsacus (the younger) ancient Greek Epicurean philosopher -331 - -278 a.C.
Attributed to Metrodorus by Clement of Alexandria, Stromata, V, 14, as translated by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Clement of Alexandria, vol. II, in Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to A.D. 325, vol. XII, 1869, p. 300 https://archive.org/details/antenicenechris05donagoog/page/n314.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning, libro Sonnets from the Portuguese
No. IV
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
— Lyman Heath American musician 1804 - 1870
The Grave of Bonaparte, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919) (incorrectly attributed as "Leonard" Heath).
— Johann Gottlieb Fichte German philosopher 1762 - 1814
Origine: The Way Towards The Blessed Life or the Doctrine of Religion 1806, P. 3
— Erik Axel Karlfeldt Swedish poet 1864 - 1931
Attributed in Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings, tr. Leif Sjoberg and W. H. Auden (1964), journal entry for (October 1, 1957).
— Robert Barclay Scottish Quaker apologist 1648 - 1690
Letter to Charles II of England (25 November 1675)
An Apology for the True Christian Divinity (1678)
Contesto: There is no king in the world, who can so experimentally testify of God's providence and goodness; neither is there any who rules so many free people, so many true Christians: which thing renders thy government more honorable, thyself more considerable, than the accession of many nations filled with slavish and superstitious souls.
Thou hast tasted of prosperity and adversity; thou knowest what it is to be banished thy native country, to be overruled as well as to rule and sit upon the throne; and being oppressed, thou hast reason to know how hateful the oppressor is both to God and man. If after all these warnings and advertisements thou dost not turn unto the Lord with all thy heart, but forget him who remembered thee in thy distress and give up thyself to follow lust and vanity, surely great will be thy condemnation.
Against which snare, as well as the temptation of those that may or do feed thee and prompt thee to evil, the most excellent and prevalent remedy will be to apply thyself to that Light of Christ, which shineth in thy conscience, which neither can nor will flatter thee nor suffer thee to be at ease in thy sins, but doth and will deal plainly and faithfully with thee as those that are followers thereof have also done.
God Almighty, who hath so signally hitherto visited thee with his love, so touch and reach thy heart, ere the day of thy visitation be expired, that thou mayest effectually turn to him so as to improve thy place and station for his name.
„Wilt make haste to give up thy verdict because thou wilt not lose thy dinner.“
— Thomas Middleton English playwright and poet 1580 - 1627
A Trick to catch the Old One (1605).
— Sarmad Kashani Persian mystic, poet and saint 1590 - 1661
Origine: [Asiri 1950, No. 334] Asiri 1950 — Asiri, Fazl Mahmud. Rubaiyat-i-Sarmad. Shantiniketan, 1950. Quoted from SARMAD: LIFE AND DEATH OF A SUFI https://iphras.ru/uplfile/smirnov/ishraq/3/24_prig.pdf by N. Prigarina
— Gerrard Winstanley English Protestant religious reformer, political philosopher, and activist 1609 - 1676
The True Levellers Standard Advanced (1649)
— Thomas Fuller (writer) British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654 - 1734
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
„With that truncheon thou hast slain a good knight, and now it sticketh in thy body.“
— Thomas Malory, libro Le Morte d'Arthur
Book II, ch. 14
Le Morte d'Arthur (c. 1469) (first known edition 1485)
