“The hunter and the deer a shade.”
Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) British writer
O'Connor's Child, Stanza 5
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
The London Literary Gazette, 1821-1822
“The hunter and the deer a shade.”
Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) British writer
O'Connor's Child, Stanza 5
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The hunter and the deer a shade.”
Philip Freneau (1752–1832) American poet, nationalist, polemicist, sea captain and newspaper editor
The Indian Burying-Ground. This line was appropriated by Thomas Campbell in O'Connor's Child.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The London Literary Gazette, 1821-1822
“Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began
A mighty hunter, and his prey was man.”
Alexander Pope book Windsor Forest
Source: Windsor Forest (1713), Line 61.
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
“Why did the hunters in the Wealth of Nations exchange beavers for deer?”
Joan Robinson (1903–1983) English economist
Source: Contributions to Modern Economics (1978), Chapter 14, The Philosophy of Prices, p. 146
Robert Burns My Heart's in the Highlands
My Heart's in the Highlands, st. 1
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)