Author: Charles Johnson

Cites

• Horace (2)
  • IN: A congratulatory verse, to Her Grace, the Dutchess of Marlborough: on the late glorious victory, near Hochstet in Germany. August the 2d 1704. (1704) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: Vindelici didicere nuper Quid marte possis. Milite nam tuo Drusus Genaunos, implacidum genus, Brennosque veloces, & arces Alpibus impositas tremendis, Dejecit acer plus vice Simplici.
    FROM: Epistularum liber secundus (Ad Augustum), (-14), Poem, Italy
  • IN: The queen: a Pindarick ode. By Mr. Cha. Johnson. (1705) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: Phoebus volentem praelia me loqui, Victas & Urbes, increpuit, Lyra: Ne parva Tyrrhenum per Aequor Veta darem
    FROM: Carmina/The Odes, (-13), Poem, Italy
• (Saint) Thomas Aquinas (1)
  • IN: Middle Passage (1990) Historical Novel, American
    EPIGRAPH: Homo est quo dammodo omnia
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
• Robert Hayden (1)
  • IN: Middle Passage (1990) Historical Novel, American
    EPIGRAPH: What port awaits us, Davy Jones' or home? I've heard of slavers drifting, drifting, playthings of wind and storm and chance, their crews gone blind, the jungle hatred crawling up on deck.
    FROM: "Middle Passage", (1945), Poem, US
• Yajnavalkya (1)
  • IN: Middle Passage (1990) Historical Novel, American
    EPIGRAPH: Who sees variety and not the Unity wanders on from death to death
    FROM: Brihad-aranyaka Upanishad, (-650), Religious Text, India
• Virgil (1)
  • IN: Ramelies. A poem. (1706) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: Supra Homines, Supra ire deos pietate videbis, Nec Gens ulla tuos Aeque celebrabit honores.
    FROM: Aeneid, (-19), Poem, Italy