
Literary Essays, vol. II (1870–1890), Rousseau and the Sentimentalists
Source: The Shadow of the Wind
Literary Essays, vol. II (1870–1890), Rousseau and the Sentimentalists
“Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning.”
Source: The Name of the Wind
The Signs of the Times (9 December 1903], paragraph 10
“The child speaks words with his memory long before he speaks them with his tongue.”
Source: Mutiny on the Bounty
“The sea had soaked his heart through”
Homer's Odysses (1614), Book V, line 608; shipwrecked Odysseus washes up on Scheria.
Context: Then forth he came, his both knees falt'ring, both
His strong hands hanging down, and all with froth
His cheeks and nostrils flowing, voice and breath
Spent to all use, and down he sunk to death.
The sea had soaked his heart through; all his veins
His toils had rack'd t'a labouring woman's pains.
Dead weary was he.