King Arthur (1691), Act II scene v, 'Song of Venus.
“When they and Venus to his cottage came,
For lust-rewards prefer'd the Cyprian dame.”
Book XXIV; the Judgement of Paris.
Homer His Iliads Translated (1660)
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“The palace is not safe, when the cottage is not happy.”
Speech to Wynyard Horticultural Show (1848), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (London: John Murray, 1929), p. 709.
1840s
North and South Trilogy (1982-1987), Answer the Drum
St. 8. Compare: "And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin / Is pride that apes humility", Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Devil's Thoughts.
The Devil's Walk http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/shelley/devil/devil.rs1860.html (1799)
[NewsBank, Mark Bennett, Bill Nye still rocking science - TV personality making weekend appearance in town to help open Children's Museum, The Tribune-Star, Terre Haute, Indiana, September 24, 2010]
“What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?”
"Venus as a Boy", from the CD single Venus as a Boy (1993)
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