“The great Emathian conqueror bid spare
The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower
Went to the ground.”
Sonnet VIII: When the Assault was intended to the City
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English epic poet 1608–1674Related quotes

An Account of Col. Crockett's Tour to the North and Down East : In the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-four (1835), p. 172
Context: I am sorry to say I do doubt the honesty of many men that are called good at home, that have given themselves up to serve a party. I am no man's man. I bark at no man's bid. I will never come and go, and fetch and carry, at the whistle of the great man in the white house, no matter who he is. And if this petty, un-patriotic scuffling for men, and forgetting principles, goes on, it will be the overthrow of this one happy nation, and the blood and toil of our ancestors will have been expended in vain.
“Her great heart performs her bidding.”
About Inanna, Lines 49-59.
A Hymn to Inana (23rd century BCE)

"They," published in Traffics and Discoveries (1904)
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The God-Seeker (1949), Ch. 57

comment after the Olympic Closing Ceremonies in 1996
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