Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
Odes, Book iv, Ode 9, reported in William Warburton, The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq (1751) p. 31.
“Call it not vain;—they do not err,
Who say, that when the Poet dies,
Mute Nature mourns her worshipper,
And celebrates his obsequies.”
Canto V, stanza 1.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
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William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) American romantic poet and journalist
The Battlefield http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16341/16341-h/16341-h.htm#page222 (1839), st. 9
“Every moment celebrates obsequies over the virtues of its predecessor.”
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
Source: The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. III, Reason in Religion, Ch. XIV
Thomas Yalden (1670–1736) English poet
"Patroclus's Request to Achilles for his Arms; Imitated from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Iliad of Homer", in Tonson's The Annual Miscellany for the Year 1694.
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“Till Phoebus' rising from his evening fall
To her, for her, he mourns, he calls, he cries.”
Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) Italian poet
Lei nel partir, lei nel tornar del Sole
Chiama con voce stanca, e prega, e plora.
Canto XII, stanza 90 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
Gordon Lightfoot (1938) Canadian singer-songwriter
Bitter Green, Track 4, UNITED ARTISTS
Back Here On Earth (1968)
Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
"Trefusis Blasphemes" radio broadcast, as published in Paperweight (1993)
1990s
Context: I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance. That is my religion, and every day I am sorely, grossly, heinously and deeply offended, wounded, mortified and injured by a thousand different blasphemies against it. When the fundamental canons of truth, honesty, compassion and decency are hourly assaulted by fatuous bishops, pompous, illiberal and ignorant priests, politicians and prelates, sanctimonious censors, self-appointed moralists and busy-bodies, what recourse of ancient laws have I? None whatever. Nor would I ask for any. For unlike these blistering imbeciles my belief in my religion is strong and I know that lies will always fail and indecency and intolerance will always perish.
“Experience does not err; only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Context: Experience does not err; only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power. Men wrongly complain of Experience; with great abuse they accuse her of leading them astray but they set Experience aside, turning from it with complaints as to our ignorance causing us to be carried away by vain and foolish desires to promise ourselves, in her name, things that are not in her power; saying that she is fallacious. Men are unjust in complaining of innocent Experience, constantly accusing her of error and of false evidence.
“Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her
Is righted even when men grant they err.”
George Chapman Monsieur D'Olive
Monsieur D'Olive, Act I, scene i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).