“Plain as the nose on a man's face.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 4.
“As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.”
Section 3, member 4, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
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“Plain as the nose in a man's face.”
Francois Rabelais book Gargantua and Pantagruel
Author's prologue.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564)
Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–1655) French novelist, dramatist, scientist and duelist
The Other World (1657)
“…the Malay word chium meant to plough the beloved’s face with one’s nose”
Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) English writer
Fiction, Beds in the East (1959)
Pindar (-517–-437 BC) Ancient Greek poet
οὔ τοι ἅπασα κερδίων
φαίνοισα πρόσωπον ἀλάθει᾽ ἀτρεκής·
καὶ τὸ σιγᾶν πολλάκις ἐστὶ σοφώτατον ἀνθρώπῳ νοῆσαι.
Nemean 5, line 16-8; page 222. (483 BC?)
“He would not, with a peremptory tone,
Assert the nose upon his face his own.”
William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist
Source: Conversation (1782), Line 121.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
Letters and Papers from Prison (1967; 1997), The Friend
Context: When the spirit touches
man's heart and brow
with thoughts that are lofty, bold, serene,
so that with clear eyes he will face the world
as a free man may;
when the spirit gives birth to action
by which alone we stand or fall;
when from the sane and resolute action
rises the workd that gives a a man's life
content and meaning — then would that many,
lonely and actively working,
know of the spirit that grasps and befriends him...