William Carew Hazlitt, English Proverbs and Provincial Phrases, (London, 1882) http://books.google.com/books?vid=0BwDL0yjf1gG1Sn05IQSrM4&id=mmkKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA205&lpg=PA205&dq=%22He+who+would+see+old+Hoghton+right%22#PPA205,M1
Misattributed
“If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright,
Go visit it by the pale moonlight.”
Canto II, stanza 1.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
“In pale moonlight / the wisteria's scent / comes from far away.”
Source: A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
Light (1919), Ch. XXII - Light
Context: He who would dig right down to the truth must simplify; his faith must be brutally simple, or he is lost. Laugh at the subtle shades and distinctions of the rhetoricians and the specialist physicians. Say aloud: "This is what is," and then, "That is what must be."
Variant: A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Source: The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II
“Old rights must remain: it would be very unreasonable if it should be otherwise.”
Mayor, &c. of Colchester v. Seaber (1765), 3 Burr. Part IV. 1872.
What is to be Done? (1902)
“He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.”
The Playground of Europe (1871; London: Longmans, Green, 1899) p. 131
“Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight,
But Roaring Bill (who killed him) thought it right.”
"The Pacifist"
Sonnets and Verse (1938)
Tribune Rally, 29 September 1954, in response to Clement Attlee's wish for a non-emotional response to German rearmament. The remark 'desiccated calculating-machine' is often taken as a Bevan jibe against Hugh Gaitskell who became Labour Party leader the following year.
1950s
