Ses rides, sur son front, ont grave ses exploits.
Don Diego, act I, scene i.
Le Cid (1636)
Ses rides, sur son front, ont grave ses exploits.
Le Cid (1636)
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
“Then the Father from his starry citadel beholding these glorious deeds of the Greeks and how the mighty work went forward, is glad.”
Siderea tunc arce pater pulcherrima Graium
coepta tuens tantamque operis consurgere molem
laetatur.
Source: Argonautica, Book I, Lines 498–500
The Analects, The Doctrine of the Mean
Context: Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license. Thus his words have respect to his actions, and his actions have respect to his words; is it not just an entire sincerity which marks the superior man?
“The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.”
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)
“The stag in limpid currents with surprise
Sees crystal branches on his forehead rise.”
Epistle: "To the Earl of Dorset" (1709), line 39.
Source: Discourse in Commemoration of Adams and Jefferson (1826), p. 146
