Source: Thebaid, Book III, Line 210
Quantus equis quantusque viris in puluere crasso sudor! io quanti crudele rubebitis amnes!
The Rubaiyat (1120)
“619. You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Address to the Annual Dinner of the Canadian Press, Toronto, April 18, 1956
Speaking Of Canada - (1959)
“Villain, a horse--
Villain, I say, give me a horse to fly,
To swim the river, villain, and to fly.”
Battle of Alcazar (acted 1588-1589, printed 1594), act V, l:104, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Published anonymously, but attributed with much probability to Peele.
“Men, whose span is cruelly short, rush nonetheless to death in their youth as to a maiden’s arms.”
Source: The Broken Sword (1954), Chapter 10 (p. 55)
St. XXXVIII
Adonais (1821)
Context: He wakes or sleeps with the enduring dead;
Thou canst not soar where he is sitting now -
Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow
Back to the burning fountain whence it came,
A portion of the Eternal.
Source: The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1717), Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, Line 71.
