The Triad.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Again the shadow moveth o'er
The dial-plate of time.”
The New Year, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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Canto II, X
The Fate of Adelaide (1821)
“True as the needle to the pole,
Or as the dial to the sun.”
Song, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shin’d upon", Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part iii, Canto ii, line 175.
“A glass is a glass and a plate is a plate”
24 September, 2015
As President, 2015
Source: El Mundo http://www.elmundo.es/enredados/2015/09/24/5603d50222601d4c0a8b4584.html
“True as the dial to the sun,
Although it be not shin'd upon.”
Canto II, line 175
Source: Hudibras, Part III (1678)
Book I, lines 417–430 (pp. 23–24)
The Lusiad; Or, The Discovery of India: an Epic Poem (1776)