The World (1629)
“Woman's faith and woman's trust,
Write the characters in dust.”
The Betrothed, Chap. xx.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
A Summer Evening’s Tale
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
His Own Epitaph, written the night before his execution (1618) and found in his Bible in the Gate-house at Westminster; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tnk8RpOFWw "Even Such is Time" — Choir of Salisbury Cathedral
“There are many who write good deeds in the dust, and injuries on marble.”
Ve ne sono molti che scrivono i beneficii nella polvere, e l'ingiurie nel marmo.
Del Prencipe di Valacchia, p. 79.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 436.
“Yet leaving here a name, I trust,
That will not perish in the dust.”
My Days Among the Dead Are Past, st. 4.
tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Birds+685
Birds, line 685-687
Birds (414 BC)
St. XXXVIII
Adonais (1821)
Context: He wakes or sleeps with the enduring dead;
Thou canst not soar where he is sitting now -
Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow
Back to the burning fountain whence it came,
A portion of the Eternal.
