"The War of Caros"
The Poems of Ossian
James Macpherson (1736–1796) Scottish writer, poet, translator, and politician
Book III. Compare: Parcere subjectis et debellare superbos. ("Spare the conquered, battle down the proud.") Virgil, Aeneid (19 BC), Book VI, line 853 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald).
The Poems of Ossian, Fingal, an ancient Epic Poem
“In my days of youth, I remembered my God,
And he hath not forgotten my age.”
Robert Southey (1774–1843) British poet
The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them, st. 6.
Albert Cohen (1895–1981) Swiss writer
Le livre de ma mère [The Book of My Mother] (1954)
Pierre Monteux (1875–1964) French conductor
From Monteux, Doris G (1965). It's All in the Music: The Life and Work of Pierre Monteux. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. OCLC 604146,, p. 198
“I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
His Phoenix http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1510/, refrain <br class="br">The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
Joel Courtney (1996) American actor
Exclusive Interview With “Super 8” And “The Kissing Booth” Star Joel Courtney https://daman.co.id/exclusive-interview-with-super-8-and-the-kissing-booth-star-joel-courtney/ (June 6, 2011)
Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914) American physician
On a Boy's first Reading of "King Henry V", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919); comparable to "I am the master of my fate", William Ernest Henley, Invictus (1875).
“I never saw a more dreadful battle in my born days.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book IV, Ch. 8.
Henry Vaughan (1621–1695) Welsh author, physician and metaphysical poet
"The Retreat," l. 1.
Silex Scintillans (1655)
Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890) British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, lin…
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
