“I feel once more the scars of the old flame.”
Agnosco veteris vestigia flammae.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IV, Line 23 (tr. C. Day Lewis); Dido acknowledging her love for Aeneas.
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
“I feel once more the scars of the old flame.”
Agnosco veteris vestigia flammae.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IV, Line 23 (tr. C. Day Lewis); Dido acknowledging her love for Aeneas.
“A great flame follows a little spark.”
Dante Alighieri book Paradiso
Canto I, line 34 (tr. Sinclair).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso
Luís de Camões (1524–1580) Portuguese poet
Fico que em todo o mundo de vós cante,<br>De sorte que Alexandro em vós se veja,<br>Sem à dita de Aquiles ter enveja. <br class="br">Stanza 156, line 6–8 (tr. William Julius Mickle); hear the last lines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHwqw1Fbcoc&feature=youtu.be&t=6m5s [in Portuguese] <br class="br">Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto X
“Vital spark of heav'nly flame!
Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
Stanza 1.
The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712)
Context: Vital spark of heav'nly flame!
Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame:
Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying,
Oh the pain, the bliss of dying!
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
Stanza 1
Source: The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712)