Stanza 7
Elegy on the Death of Mr. Robert Levet, A Practiser in Physic (1783)
Canto I, line 131
Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
Context: Whatever sceptic could inquire for,
For ev'ry why he had a wherefore;
Knew more than forty of them do,
As far as words and terms cou'd go.
All which he understood by rote
And, as occasion serv'd, would quote;
No matter whether right or wrong,
They might be either said or sung.
His notions fitted things so well,
That which was which he could not tell;
But oftentimes mistook th' one
For th' other, as great clerks have done.
“Th' Eternal Mind, ev'n Heathens understood,
Was Infinitely Powerful, Wise, and Good.”
The True Grounds Of Eternal And Immutable Rectitude" St. 1 <!-- p. 128 -->
Miscellaneous Poems (1773)
Context: Th' Eternal Mind, ev'n Heathens understood,
Was Infinitely Powerful, Wise, and Good.
In their Conceptions, who conceiv'd aright,
These Three Essential Attributes unite.
They saw that, wanting any of the Three,
Such an All-perfect Being could not be.
Edgar Kaufmann conversation, letter to Edgar Kaufmann Jr, 1932, Wis.
About Martinez
“Knowing that you possess a talent is half the battle in mastering it.”
Source: Time War (1974), Chapter 12, “The Metal Brain” (p. 128)
“Why should not conscience have vacation
As well as other courts o' th' nation?”
Canto II, line 317
Source: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
Writing as his character, "th' Hon. Ex.-Editur Cale Fluhart." as quoted in The American Humorist : Conscience of the Twentieth Century (1964) by Norris W. Yeats, p. 107.
Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 953–954 (tr. Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Stump Orator (May 1, 1850)
Context: Our English careers to born genius are twofold. There is the silent or unlearned career of the Industrialisms, which are very many among us; and there is the articulate or learned career of the three professions, Medicine, Law (under which we may include Politics), and the Church. Your born genius, therefore, will first have to ask himself, Whether he can hold his tongue or cannot? True, all human talent, especially all deep talent, is a talent to do, and is intrinsically of silent nature; inaudible, like the Sphere Harmonies and Eternal Melodies, of which it is an incarnated fraction.
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