“To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.”
Source: Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658), Chapter V
“Fate sits on these dark battlements and frowns,
And as the portal opens to receive me,
A voice in hollow murmurs through the courts
Tells of a nameless deed.”
—
Ann Radcliffe
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The Mysteries of Udolpho
Motto to the novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho, presumed to be Radcliffe's own composition, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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“The towers shine in a larger blue, and the portals bloom with a mystic light. Silence was ordered and mute in terror fell the world. From on high he begins. His holy words have weight heavy and immutable and the Fates follow his voice.”
Radiant majore sereno
culmina et arcano florentes lumine postes.
postquam jussa quies siluitque exterritus orbis,
incipit ex alto: grave et inmutabile sanctis
pondus adest verbis, et vocem fata sequuntur.
Source: Thebaid, Book I, Line 209
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Mi voz me dice: “Así es todo”.
Y el eco de mi voz me dice: “Así eres tú”.
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