“Who dreads to the dust returning?
Who shrinks from the sable shore,
Where the high and haughty yearning
Of the soul can sting no more?”
The Revel: Time of the Famine and Plague in India, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994), "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality", p. 79
De Montfort (1798), Act I, scene 2; in A Series of Plays.
Aeneis, Book I, lines 1–4.
The Works of Virgil (1697)
Act III, scene 1, line 151.
Count Basil (1798)
“Begot by butchers, but by bishops bred,
How high his Highness holds his haughty head!”
Attributed to Cardinal Wolsey in English Etymology; Or, a Derivative Dictionary of the English Language (1783) by George William Lemon, "Alliteration".
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“The soul shrinks
From all that it is about to remember,
From the punctual rape of every blessed day”
Love Calls Us To The Things Of This World
Context: The soul shrinks
From all that it is about to remember,
From the punctual rape of every blessed day,
And cries,
"Oh, let there be nothing on earth but laundry,
Nothing but rosy hands in the rising steam
And clear dances done in the sight of heaven."