“There had his flesh been rent, fractur'd his bones,
'Mongst rowling pebbles, and sharp pointed stones.”
Book V
Homer His Odysses Translated (1665)
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Scottish academic 1600–1676Related quotes
“Rattle his bones over the stones!
He's only a pauper, whom nobody owns!”
Thomas Noel (poet) (1799–1861) English poet
The Pauper's Ride, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“God don't lie…. And these are his words…. He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things.”
Cormac McCarthy book Blood Meridian
Source: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter IX, Judge Holden
“Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) French writer
Second Week, Fourth Day, Book ii.
La Seconde Semaine (1584)
Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
As quoted in Bruce Lee: Artist of Life (1999) edited by John R. Little, p. 192
