
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
The Book of the Law (1904)
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
“Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame,
When once it is within thee.”
The Temple (1633), The Church Porch
“Once thou art wed, no longer canst thou be
Lord of thyself.”
Fabulae Incertae, Fragment 34, 7.
Poem Present in Absence http://www.bartleby.com/101/197.html
Attribution likely but not proven http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0026-7937(191107)6%3A3%3C383%3ATAO%22HT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B
“Whoe'er thou art, thy Lord and master see,
Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be.”
Inscription for a Figure representing the God of Love. See Genuine Works. (1732) I. 129. Version of a Greek couplet from the Greek Anthology.
“Poor indeed must thou be, if around thee
Thou no ray of light and joy canst throw”
Why thus longing? reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“So weak thou art, that fools thy power despise;
And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.”
To Love, found in Miss Vanhomrigh's desk after her death, in Swift's handwriting
Tractatus VII, 8 http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/170207.htm
Latin: "dilige et quod vis fac."; falsely often: "ama et fac quod vis."
Translation by Professor Joseph Fletcher: Love and then what you will, do.
In epistolam Ioannis ad Parthos