Pt. I, The Landlord's Tale: Paul Revere's Ride, st. 2.
Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 253.
“Every morning I get up for two reasons: one is the alarm that rings, the other is you.”
Original: (it) Ogni mattina mi alzo per due motivi: uno è la sveglia che suona, l'altro sei tu.
Source: prevale.net
Aeneis, Book I, lines 1–4.
The Works of Virgil (1697)
“In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.”
Source: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
“Two or three days at sea are equivalent to at least as many weeks on shore.”
Prologue
Tourmalin's Time Cheques (1885)
Major General Arthur Wellesley, p. 196
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Triumph (1997)
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
When Thou at Eve art Roaming, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
