“Stern Daughter of the Voice of God!”
Stanza 1.
Ode to Duty http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww271.html (1805)
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 517.
“Have hung
My dank and dropping weeds
To the stern god of sea.”
Translation of Horace. Book i. Ode 5
Stanzas for Music http://readytogoebooks.com/LB-StanzM-beautysd.htm, st. 1 (1816).
“Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.”
Boulter's Monument. (Supposed to have been inserted by Dr. Johnson, 1745.)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Words are men’s daughters, but God’s sons are things.”
Boulter's Monument (1745). At Madden's request, the poem was revised for publication by Samuel Johnson, some authorities hold that and that this line was an insertion by Johnson; however Johnson's own account was that he had merely "blotted out" unnecessary lines of the poem. See James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies (1791) p. 175. Compare: "Words are women, deeds are men", George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum.
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The Life of Lewis Carroll (1962)
“Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.”
Of Building.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)