“She succumbed to the eternal feminine passion for bargains.”
Georgette Heyer book Cotillion
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George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. II, Reason in Society
“It was epic. It was awkward. It was epically awkward.”
Ally Carter (1974) American writer
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“You mean you have to be epic already, for it to make you more epic?”
Karen Marie Moning (1964) author
Source: Bloodfever
“The sediments are a sort of epic poem of the earth.”
Rachel Carson book The Sea Around Us
Chapter 6, Page 98 https://books.google.com/books?id=PvkDFTtW6f4C&&pg=PA98 <br class="br">The Sea Around Us (1951)
“Science unrolls a greater epic than the Iliad.”
Edward FitzGerald (1809–1883) English poet and writer
The present day teems with new discoveries in Fact, which are greater, as regards the soul and prospect of men, than all the disquisitions and quiddities of the Schoolmen. A few fossil bones in clay and limestone have opened a greater vista back into time than the Indian imagination ventured upon for its Gods: and every day turns up something new. This vision of Time must not only wither the poet's hope of immortality, it is in itself more wonderful than all the conceptions of Dante and Milton.
Letter to Edward Byles Cowell, quoted in The Life of Edward FitzGerald, Translator of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyán (1947) by Alfred McKinley Terhune, p. 146.
Cyrus H. Gordon (1908–2001) American linguist
Source: The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965 [1962]), Ch.VII Further Observations on Homer <!-- p.224, 1965 paper -->
“This sprawling epic is as lively as a natural history museum diorama.”
Stephanie Zacharek (1963) American film critic
Review http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2008/03/07/10_000_bc/ of 10,000 BC (2008)
“Sarah and Dinah are heroines according to the standards of royal epic.”
Cyrus H. Gordon (1908–2001) American linguist
Source: The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965 [1962]), Ch.VIII Further Observations on the Bible
Context: Once we recognize the factor of royal epic in Genesis, we see that the Helen-of-Troy motif permeates the Patriarchal Narratives.... Like Helen and Hurrai, Sarah and Dinah are heroines according to the standards of royal epic.
“Epic literature is not history but is again a way of looking at the past.”
Romila Thapar (1931) Indian historian
Source: Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300, p. 100.