Author: Charles Maturin

Cites

• Edmund Spenser (2)
  • IN: Wild Irish Boy (1808) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: " But if that country of Ireland from which you lately came, be of so goodly and commodious a soil, as you report, I wonder that no course is taken for turning there of to good uses, and reducing that nation to better goverment and civility. "
    FROM: The State of Ireland, (1596), Book, UK
  • IN: The Albigenses (1824) Ficton, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: A gentle knight came pricking o'er the plain.
    FROM: The Faerie Queene: Book I, Canto I, (1590), Book, UK
• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Alive again? Then show me where he is; I'll give a thousand pounds to look upon him.
    FROM: Henry VI, (1623), Play, UK
• Ovid (1)
  • IN: Women, Or, Pour Et Contre: A Tale (1818) Ficton, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Ut mea sit, Servata mea virtute, paciscor.
    FROM: Metamorphoses, (8), Poem, Italy
• Alexander Pope (1)
  • IN: The Milesian Chief (1812) Ficton, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Wise wretch, with too much learning to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought, You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing, but a rage to live.
    FROM: Moral Essays, (1735), Essay, UK