Lies, Damn Lies, and Armenian Deaths (2009)
“Masters, I have to tell a tale of woe,
A tale of folly and of wasted life”
William Morris (1834–1896) author, designer, and craftsman
Introductory verse.
The Earthly Paradise (1868-70)
Context: Masters, I have to tell a tale of woe,
A tale of folly and of wasted life,
Hope against hope, the bitter dregs of strife,
Ending, where all things end, in death at last.
“With living colours give my verse to glow:
The sad memorial of a tale of woe!”
William Falconer (1732–1769) British writer
Introduction, lines 35-36.
The Shipwreck (1762)
Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889) English writer and poet
The Song of Seventy.
A Thousand Lines (1846)
“There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.”
Charles de Lint book Yarrow
Yarrow : An Autumn Tale (1997), p. 43
“Pall on her temper, like a twice-told tale.”
Mark Akenside book The Pleasures of the Imagination
Book I, line 220
The Pleasures of the Imagination (1744)
“This suffering will yield us yet
A pleasant tale to tell.”
John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book I, p. 12
