Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic
The Garden of Proserpine.
Undated
“At last a pleasant river's mouth he finds,
Free from rough clifts, safe from disturbing winds.”
Book V
Homer His Odysses Translated (1665)
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“Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation: not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive from what ills you are free yourself is pleasant.”
Suave mari magno turbantibus aequora ventis
e terra magnum alterius spectare laborem;
non quia vexari quemquamst jucunda voluptas,
sed quibus ipse malis careas quia cernere suave est.
Lucretius (-94–-55 BC) Roman poet and philosopher
Book II, lines 1–4 (tr. Rouse)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
“Dry sun, dry wind;
Safe bind, safe find.”
Thomas Tusser (1524–1580) English poet
Washing, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Than catch and hold while I may, fast binde, fast finde", John Heywood, Proverbes, Part I, Chapter III; "Fast bind, fast find; A proverb never stale in thrifty mind", William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, act ii. sc. 5.
Vitruvius book De architectura
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter VI, Sec. 10
“Howling in the shadows,
living in a lunar spell,
he finds his heaven,
spewing from the mouth of hell.”
Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter
Bark at the Moon, written by Ozzy Osbourne
Song lyrics, Bark at the Moon (1983)
Will Cuppy (1884–1949) American writer
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part VI: Now We're Getting Somewhere, Christopher Columbus