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Musophilus

Name: Musophilus
Author: Samuel Daniel

Samuel Daniel

Musophilus is a long poem by Samuel Daniel, first published in 1599.

“This is the thing that I was born to do.”

Samuel Daniel book Musophilus

Musophilus (1599), Stanza 100, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.”

Samuel Daniel book Musophilus

Musophilus (1599), Stanza 57, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“And who (in time) knows whither we may vent
The treasure of our tongue? To what strange shores
This gain of our best glory shall be sent
T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores?
What worlds in the yet unformed Occident
May come refin'd with th' accents that are ours?”

Samuel Daniel book Musophilus

Musophilus (1599), Stanza 163, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Westward the course of empire takes its way", George Berkeley, On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America.

“And for the few that only lend their ear,
That few is all the world.”

Samuel Daniel book Musophilus

Musophilus (1599), Stanza 97, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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