
Part III, No. 43 - Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge.
Ecclesiastical Sonnets (1821)
Marco Bozzaris.
Part III, No. 43 - Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge.
Ecclesiastical Sonnets (1821)
“The immortal name of Jubal filled the sky,
While Jubal lonely laid him down to die.”
The Legend of Jubal (1869)
Context: But ere the laughter died from out the rear,
Anger in front saw profanation near;
Jubal was but a name in each man's faith
For glorious power untouched by that slow death
Which creeps with creeping time; this too, the spot,
And this the day, it must be crime to blot,
Even with scoffing at a madman's lie:
Jubal was not a name to wed with mockery.
Two rushed upon him: two, the most devout
In honor of great Jubal, thrust him out,
And beat him with their flutes. 'Twas little need;
He strove not, cried not, but with tottering speed,
As if the scorn and howls were driving wind
That urged his body, serving so the mind
Which could but shrink and yearn, he sought the screen
Of thorny thickets, and there fell unseen.
The immortal name of Jubal filled the sky,
While Jubal lonely laid him down to die.
“Tis immortality to die aspiring,
As if a man were taken quick to heaven.”
Act I, scene i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron (1608)
“… a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.”
Source: Farnham's Freehold
“Men were born to die! Life has only one purpose: to understand the sense of your own misery.”
Donna Giovanna, Act IV, scene iii.
“I was born a Hindu but will not die one.”
As quoted in "The bogey of forced conversions", in The Hindu (26 October 2008) http://www.hindu.com/mag/2008/10/26/stories/2008102650150500.htm
“One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.”
Man büßt es theuer, unsterblich zu sein: man stirbt dafür mehrere Male bei Lebzeiten.
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Ecce Homo (1888)
“We were born as a blank page and we will die as a black page.”
Si nasce come una pagina bianca e si muore come una pagina nera.