Source: Argonautica (3rd century BC), Book IV. Homeward Bound, Lines 136–138
“Celestial choir! enthron'd in realms of light, Columbia's scenes of glorious toils I write. While freedom's cause her anxious breast alarms, She flashes dreadful in refulgent arms.”
1770s, To His Excellency, George Washington (1775)
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American poet 1753–1784Related quotes

“While we had France for an enemy, Germany was the scene to employ and baffle her arms.”
Speech in the House of Commons (August 1762).

Book i. Stanza 11.
The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius (1771)

“Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.”
Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

As armas e os Barões assinalados
Que da Ocidental praia Lusitana
Por mares nunca de antes navegados
Passaram ainda além da Taprobana,
Em perigos e guerras esforçados
Mais do que prometia a força humana,
E entre gente remota edificaram
Novo Reino, que tanto sublimaram.
Stanza 1 (as translated by William Julius Mickle, 1776)
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto I
“She is suspicious and fearless and her progress is alarming.”
Geek Love (1989)
“Glorious transformation! glorious translation! I seem already to behold the wondrous scene.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 359.
Context: Glorious transformation! glorious translation! I seem already to behold the wondrous scene. The sea and the land have given up their dead! the quickened myriads have been judged according to their works. And now, an innumerable company, out of all nations and tribes and tongues, ascend with the Mediator towards the kingdom of His Father. Can it be that these, who were born children of earth, who were long enemies to God by wicked works, are to enter the bright scenes of paradise? Yes, He who leads them has washed them in His blood; He who leads them has sanctified them by His Spirit.

on his mom, Dolly Wiseman. Spin (October 2001)