Friday, March 21, 2008
Miscellaneous Quotations
Vergil, Eclogues 2.61-62 (tr. H. Rushton Fairclough):
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Let Pallas dwell by herself in the cities she has built; but let my chief delight be the woods!Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.675 (tr. Frank Justus Miller):
Pallas, quas condidit arces,
ipsa colat; nobis placeant ante omnia silvae.
I am devoted to the woods...Baltasar Gracián, Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia, § 74 (tr. Christopher Maurer):
sum nemorum studiosus...
The wildest animals inhabit cities.Alexander Pope, Pastorals: Summer, 59-60:
En lo más poblado están las fieras verdaderas.
See what delights in sylvan scenes appear!
Descending Gods have found Elysium here.
