“Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,
And robes the mountain in its azure hue.”
Part I, line 7
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
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Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation and Empire (1952), Chapter 13 “Lieutenant and Clown”
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“Where still the branches guarded the skin of ruddy hue, like to illumined cloud or to Iris when she ungirds her robe and glides to meet glowing Phoebus.”
Cuius adhuc rutilam servabant bracchia pellem,
nubibus accensis similem aut cum veste recincta
labitur ardenti Thaumantias obvia Phoebo.
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“Faith loves to lean on time's destroying arm,
And age, like distance, lends a double charm.”
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Urania: A Rhymed Lesson (1846), p. 11.
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Già l'aura messaggiera erasi desta
A nunziar che se ne vien l'aurora:
intanto s'adorna, e l'aurea testa
Di rose, colte in Paradiso, infiora.
Canto III, stanza 1 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
Diogenes Laërtius
(180–240) biographer of ancient Greek philosophers
Pyrrho, 9.
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