Canto III, introduction.
Marmion (1808)
“Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, but left the shield.”
Philip Freneau (1752–1832) American poet, nationalist, polemicist, sea captain and newspaper editor
To the Memory of the Americans who fell at Eutaw. Compare: "When Prussia hurried to the field, And snatched the spear, but left the shield", Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, Introduction to canto iii.
XIII, 130–131 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“… for the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.”
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
Source: The Origin of Species
“No war, or battle's sound
Was heard the world around.
The idle spear and shield were high up hung.”
John Milton On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
Hymn, stanza 4, line 53
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629)
Aeschylus (-525–-456 BC) ancient Athenian playwright
Source: Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), lines 397–399 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)
James Macpherson (1736–1796) Scottish writer, poet, translator, and politician
Book I
The Poems of Ossian, Fingal, an ancient Epic Poem
“Like a burnt stake, half stuck upon his shield;
The other half lay broken in the field.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
Book XIII
Homer His Iliads Translated (1660)
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
An Old Man Over the Body of his Son from The London Literary Gazette (1st March 1823) Medallion Wafers
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
(8th February 1823) Medallion Wafers: Head of Tyrtëus
The London Literary Gazette, 1823
“Into left-center field and deep, THIS IS A TIE BALLGAME!”
Bob Costas (1952) American sportscaster
Calling Ryne Sandberg's first game-tying home run against Bruce Sutter in the ninth inning of a Cardinals–Cubs game at Wrigley Field, June 23, 1984.
