Marguerite de Navarre book Heptaméron
Fifth Day, Novel XLVIII (trans. W. K. Kelly)
L'Heptaméron (1558)
“The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.”
Le feu qui semble éteint souvent dort sous la cendre.
Rodogune, act III, scene iv.
Rodogune (1644)
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The Writings of Marguerite Bourgeoys, p. 204
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“Falling from the pan
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Ludovico Ariosto book Orlando Furioso
Canto XIII, stanza 30 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“It is hard to hate what one has loved,
And a half-extinguished fire is soon relit.”
On a peine à haïr ce qu'on a bien aimé,
Et le feu mal éteint est bientôt rallumé.
Sertorius, act I, scene iii.
Sertorius (1662)
John Milton book Samson Agonistes
Source: Samson Agonistes (1671), Lines 1687-1692 & 1697-1707
Context: But he, though blind of sight,
Despised, and thought extinguished quite,
With inward eyes illuminated,
His fiery virtue roused
From under ashes into sudden flame,
[... ]
So Virtue, given for lost,
Depressed and overthrown, as seemed,
Like that self-begotten bird
In the Arabian woods embost,
That no second knows nor third,
And lay erewhile a holocaust,
From out her ashy womb now teemed,
Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most
When most unactive deemed;
And, though her body die, her fame survives,
A secular bird, ages of lives.