
“Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.”
Source: Hamlet
“Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.”
“Calm on the bosom of thy God,
Fair spirit, rest thee now!”
The Siege of Valencia (1823), scene ix, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
By Still Waters (1906)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 152
To a Waterfowl http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16341/16341-h/16341-h.htm#page20, st. 2 (1815)
“If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.”
Rhyming response written on a windowpane beneath Sir Walter Raleigh's writing: "Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall." As quoted in The History of the Worthies of England (1662) by Thomas Fuller