“There are names written in her immortal scroll, at which FAME blushes!”
No. 53
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
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English writer 1778–1830Related quotes
Incognita of Raphael, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations 10th ed. (1919).
“How dearly, at one time, and how cheaply at another, does Genius purchase immortal fame!”
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Context: There was no blood upon her maiden robes
Sunn'd by those orient skies;
But round about the circles of the globes
Of her keen
And in her raiment's hem was traced in flame
WISDOM, a name to shake
All evil dreams of power — a sacred name.
And when she spake,
Her words did gather thunder as they ran,
And as the lightning to the thunder
Which follows it, riving the spirit of man,
Making earth wonder,
So was their meaning to her words. No sword
Of wrath her right arm whirl'd,
But one poor poet's scroll, and with his word
She shook the world.
Canto V, st. 12 (Lochinvar, st. 5).
Marmion (1808)
“A girl still able to blush is to be trapped in the heart, so as not to make her escape.”
Original: (it) Una ragazza ancora in grado di arrossire è da intrappolare nel cuore, per non farla fuggire.
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