“Soon, at a torrent's banks, I find its flood
blocks my advance while bandits follow me.”
E giungo ad un torrente, e riserrato
Quinci da i ladri son, quindi dal rio.
Canto XII, stanza 34 (tr. Wickert)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
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E giungo ad un torrente, e riserrato Quinci da i ladri son, quindi dal rio.
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
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Source: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 12.
“O water of the river Ganges, thou rememberst the day
When our torrent flooded thy valleys...”
Source: quoted in Annemarie Schimmel - Gabriel's Wing_ Study into the Religious Ideas of Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1989, Iqbal Academy) also in Jain, M. (2010). Parallel pathways: Essays on Hindu-Muslim relations, 1707-1857.
“If I advance; follow me! If I retreat; kill me! If I die; avenge me!”
Attributed to Mussolini by G. K. Chesterton in G. K's Weekly (1925), and later appearing in "Duce (1922-42)" in TIME magazine (2 August 1943), this actually originates with Henri de la Rochejaquelein (1793), as quoted in Narrative of the French Expedition in Egypt, and the Operations in Syria (1816) by Jacques Miot
Attributed
“That crystal river keeps its pools of blue water free from all stain above its shallow bed, and slowly draws along its fair stream of greenish hue. One would scarce believe it was moving; so softly along its shady banks, while the birds sing sweet in rivalry, it leads along in a shining flood its waters that tempt to sleep.”
Caeruleas Ticinus aquas et stagna uadoso
perspicuus seruat turbari nescia fundo
ac nitidum uiridi lente trahit amne liquorem.
uix credas labi: ripis tam mitis opacis
argutos inter uolucrum certamine cantus
somniferam ducit lucenti gurgite lympham.
Book IV, lines 82–87
Punica
“Make haste! The flood-tide of Fortune soon ebbs.”
Pelle moras! Brevis est magni Fortuna favoris.
Book IV, line 732
Punica
1870s, Fifth State of the Union Address (1873)
Apology to Michael Scotto (29 January 2014) http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/michael-grimm-michael-scotto-reporter-102785.html.
2010s
“Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.”