“O words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away”
John Clare (1793–1864) English poet
Source: Poems Chiefly from Manuscript
“O pitiable minds of men, O blind intelligences! In what gloom of life, in how great perils is passed all your poor span of time! not to see that all nature barks for is this, that pain be removed away out of the body, and that the mind, kept away from care and fear, enjoy a feeling of delight!”
Book II, lines 14–19 (tr. Rouse)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
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Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) Medieval saint, prophetise, mystic and Doctor of Church
Ad Vitam S. Ruperti Epilogus 6, Pitra 364.
Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
Context: He cou'd foretel whats'ever was
By consequence to come to pass;
As death of great men, alterations,
Diseases, battles, inundations.
All this, without th' eclipse o' th' sun,
Or dreadful comet, he hath done,
By inward light; away as good,
And easy to be understood;
But with more lucky hit than those
That use to make the stars depose,
Like Knights o' th' post, and falsely charge
Upon themselves what others forge:
As if they were consenting to
All mischiefs in the world men do:
Or, like the Devil, did tempt and sway 'em
To rogueries, and then betray 'em.