Thomas Gray (1716–1771) English poet, historian
St. 19 <br class="br"> Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?textelcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)
He moved on a plane of his own far removed, quoted in page=489
Thomas Gray (1716–1771) English poet, historian
St. 19 <br class="br"> Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?textelcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)
Tom Springfield (1934) English musician, songwriter and record producer
Song Island of Dreams.
“If only strife could die from the lives of gods and men”
XVIII. 107–110 (tr. Robert Fagles); spoken by Achilles.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
Context: If only strife could die from the lives of gods and men
and anger that drives the sanest man to flare in outrage—
bitter gall, sweeter than dripping streams of honey,
that swarms in people's chests and blinds like smoke.
“And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.”
Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.
Alcuin (735–804) English scholar and abbot
Variant translation: We should not listen to those who like to affirm that the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the tumult of the masses is truly close to madness.
Works, Epistle 127 (to Charlemagne, AD 800)
“Rest springs from strife and dissonant chords beget
Divinest harmonies.”
Lewis Morris (poet) (1833–1907) Welsh poet in the English language
Love's Suicide, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) British Liberal politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom
An Examination of the official reply of the Neapolitan Government (London: John Murray, 1952), p. 50.
1850s
Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864) English poet and songwriter
"A Lost Chord".
Legends and Lyrics: Second Series (1861)
“There is no advance without strife.”
Philip Wylie book After Worlds Collide
After Worlds Collide (1934), co-written with Edwin Balmer