“Woman's faith and woman's trust,
Write the characters in dust.”
Walter Scott book The Betrothed
The Betrothed, Chap. xx.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Who then to frail mortality shall trust
But limns the water, or but writes in dust.”
The World (1629)
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But limns the water, or but writes in dust." by Francis Bacon?
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
A Summer Evening’s Tale
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
Walter Raleigh (1554–1618) English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer
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.”
Stefano Guazzo (1530–1593) Italian writer
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.”
Robert Southey (1774–1843) British poet
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 <br class="br">Birds, line 685-687 <br class="br">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.
