“Like a burnt stake, half stuck upon his shield;
The other half lay broken in the field.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
Book XIII
Homer His Iliads Translated (1660)
"Valedictory" (29 December 1865) http://fair-use.org/the-liberator/1865/12/29/valedictory in the last issue of The Liberator (1 January 1866) <br class="br">The Liberator (1831 - 1866)
“Like a burnt stake, half stuck upon his shield;
The other half lay broken in the field.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
Book XIII
Homer His Iliads Translated (1660)
John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet
The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (1643), Introduction
Julie Garwood (1946) American writer
Source: The Wedding
“You wouldn’t like him. Major fanatic. Confuses migraine headaches with God.”
James K. Morrow book Only Begotten Daughter
Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 4 (p. 84)
Aleksandr Pushkin (1799–1837) Russian poet
Secular Power
as quoted in Pushkin, Alexander (2009). Selected Lyric Poetry. Northwestern University Press, p. 121.
Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian
Sermon V : The Self-Communication of God
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943) poet, short story writer, novelist
Dismas, the thief
Source: A Child is Born (1942)
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Speech in Springfield, Illinois https://cwcrossroads.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/race-and-slavery-north-and-south-some-logical-fallacies/#comment-47553 (17 July 1858) <br class="br">1850s