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"We 'll have a swashing and a martial outside, As many other mannish cowards have."
As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds: At which the universal host up sent A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night."
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 540.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"For he lives twice who can at once employ The present well, and e'en the past enjoy."
Imitation of Martial.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Patroclus, lov'd of all my martial train, Beyond mankind, beyond myself, is slain!"
The Iliad of Homer. Book xviii. Line 103.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"There is in souls a sympathy with sounds; And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased. With melting airs or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies. How soft the music of those village bells Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet!"
The Task. Book vi. Winter Walk at Noon. Line 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him."
The Burial of Sir John Moore.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; this only I can say, I do not love thee."
Epigram i. 32.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The good man prolongs his life; to be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice."
Epigram x. 23, 7.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own."
Book iv. 32.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Neither fear, nor wish for, your last day."
Book x. 47, 13.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"No American will think it wrong of me if I proclaim that to have the United States at our side was to me the greatest joy. I could not foretell the course of events. I do not pretend to have measured accurately the martial might of Japan, but now at this very moment I knew the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all! ... Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to powder."
The Second World War, Volume III: The Grand Alliance (1950) Chapter 32 (Pearl Harbor).
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