Source: The Castle of Llyr
“Ah! what fury! alas! mankind, alas! dread Promethean skill!”
O furor, o homines diraeque Prometheos artes!
Source: Thebaid, Book XI, Line 468 (tr. J. H. Mozley)
Said shortly afterwards during the trial.
Source: http://www.abc.es/20081104/opinion-firmas/mataron-munoz-seca-20081104.html
“To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.”
Source: An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised), Chapter V, paragraph 25, lines 4-5
“Alas for love, if thou wert all,
And naught beyond, O Earth!”
The Graves of a Household, st. 8.
Source: Creation Myths (1972), Deus Faber, p. 140 - 141
“A lady … with all the poise of the Sphinx though but little of her mystery.”
Concerning a child actress in A. A. Milne's play Give Me Yesterday; in her review of same, "Just Around Pooh Corner" in The New Yorker (14 March 1931)
“I, then a young and omniscient student (alas, I was soon to lose both these virtues)…”
Metaphysical Horror (1988)
Source: The Dark Is Rising (1965-1977), Silver on the Tree (1977), Chapter 14 “Caer Wydyr” (p. 190)
