Book VIII, line 168
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)
Source: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 66–70.
Original: La felicità si trova nei semplici gesti, nelle attenzioni... in cordiali riconoscimenti e graditi apprezzamenti.
Source: prevale.net
Stanza 26, quoted in Walter Scott's Kenilworth, Ch. 41.
Cumnor Hall (1784)
“Thrice venomed is the wound when 'tis Love's hand
Inflicts the blow.”
(3rd August 1822) Sketches from Drawings by Mr. Dagley. Sketch the Second. Love touching the Horns of a Snail, which is shrinking from his hand.
The London Literary Gazette, 1821-1822
" The Hand that Signed the Paper Felled a City http://www.internal.org/view_poem.phtml?poemID=98", st. 1 (1936)
Empire of the Sun (1984)
Context: The two parachutes fell towards the burial mounds. Already a squad of Japanese soldiers in a truck with a steaming radiator sped along the perimeter road, on their way to kill the pilots. Jim wiped the dust from his Latin primer and waited for the rifle shots.
The halo of light which had emerged from the burning Mustang still lay over the creeks and paddies. For a few minutes the sun had drawn nearer to the earth, as if to scorch the death from the fields.
Jim grieved for these American pilots, who died in a tangle of their harnesses, within sight of a Japanese corporal with a Mauser and a single English boy hidden on the balcony of this ruined building. Yet their end reminded Jim of his own, about which he had thought in a clandestine way ever since his arrival at Lunghua.
He welcomed the air raids, the noise of the Mustangs as they swept over the camp, the smell of oil and cordite, the deaths of the pilots, and even the likelihood of his own death. Despite everything he knew he was worth nothing. He twisted his Latin primer, trembling with a secret hunger that the war would so eagerly satisfy.
Epitaph on an Infant
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
