“Three times the warrior has embraced the maid
in his huge arms.”
Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) Italian poet
Tre volte il Cavalier la donna stringe
Con le robuste braccia.
Canto XII, stanza 57 (tr. Wickert)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
“They have taken their three-leggedness and they embrace it.”
A Few Of My Favorite Things http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBWH4eMiklU <br class="br">Youtube <br class="br">Context: I like three-legged dogs, because if I was missing a leg I would be like: „URGH, life sucks when missing a leg. Slow down! I can't walk that fast, I'm missing a freaking leg!!“ And dogs? No! A three legged dog is on it. Exactly the same amount of happy as a four-legged dog! That's why I like three-legged dogs. They have taken their three-leggedness and they embrace it.
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Vol. I, Ch. 4: Of the vision of the four Beasts
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Context: I beheld, saith Daniel, till the Beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flames. As concerning the rest of the Beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time [Chap. vii. 11, 12. ]. And therefore all the four Beasts are still alive, tho the dominion of the three first be taken away. The nations of Chaldea and Assyria are still the first Beast. Those of Media and Persia are still the second Beast. Those of Macedon, Greece and Thrace, Asia minor, Syria and Egypt, are still the third. And those of Europe, on this side Greece, are still the fourth.
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“I have embraced the summer dawn.”
Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) French Decadent and Symbolist poet
J'ai embrassé l'aube d'été. <br class="br"> Illuminations. Aube http://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/poesies/Dawn.html (Dawn) (1874) <br class="br">Variant translation: I have kissed the summer dawn.
John Henry Newman (1801–1890) English cleric and cardinal
The Dream of Gerontius http://www.ccel.org/n/newman/gerontius/gerontius.htm, Pt. I (1866).