Stanza 2.
The Second Jungle Book (1895), If— (1896)
“Why comes temptation, but for man to meet
And master and make crouch beneath his foot,
And so be pedestaled in triumph?”
Book X: The Pope, line 1185.
The Ring and the Book (1868-69)
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English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era 1812–1889Related quotes
“Why feel I so for him, whether he master his toils, or whether he fall?”
Quid me autem sic ille movet, superetne labores
an cadat?
Source: Argonautica, Book VII, Lines 131–132
Return of the Crimson Guard (2008)
“Who mourns makes grief his master.
Who drinks makes pleasure his master.”
Bashō Matsuo
(1644–1694) Japanese poet
Classical Japanese Database, Translation #41 http://carlsensei.com/classical/index.php/translation/view/41 of a Saga Diary excerpt (Translation: Robert Hass)
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Context: It rains during the morning. No visitors today. I feel lonely and amuse myself by writing at random. These are the words:
Who mourns makes grief his master.
Who drinks makes pleasure his master.
“Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering.”
Alexander Maclaren
(1826–1910) British minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 68.
“Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath,
And after many a summer dies the swan.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
(1809–1892) British poet laureate
" Tithonus http://home.att.net/%7ETennysonPoetry/tith.htm", st. 1 (1860)
Context: The woods decay, the woods decay and fall,
The vapours weep their burthen to the ground,
Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath,
And after many a summer dies the swan.
Me only cruel immortality
Consumes: I wither slowly in thine arms,
Here at the quiet limit of the world,
A white-hair'd shadow roaming like a dream
The ever-silent spaces of the East,
Far-folded mists, and gleaming halls of morn.
“His very foot has music in't
As he comes up the stairs”
William Julius Mickle
(1734–1788) British writer
St. 5
The Mariner's Wife (1769)
Context: Sae true's his words, sae smooth's his speech,
His breath like caller air,
His very foot has music in't
As he comes up the stairs:
And will I see his face again!
And will I hear him speak!
A Stick, a Carrot and String.
It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All A Dream! It's Alright (2009)