Author: Dorothy Sayers

Cites

• John Donne (1)
  • IN: Gaudy Night (1935) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The University is a Paradise. Rivers of Knowledge are there. Arts and Sciences flow from thence. Counsell Tables are Horti conclusi, (as is said in the Canticles) Gardens that are walled in, and they are Fontes signali, Wells that are sealed up; bottomless depths of unsearchable Counsels there.
    FROM: Sermon XIV, (1624), Essay, UK
• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: Busman’s Honeymoon (1937) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: That will ask some tears in the true performing of it; if I do it, let the audience look to their eyes; I will move storms, I will condole in some measure… I could play Ercles rarely, or a part to tear a cat in, to make all split… a lover is more condoling.
    FROM: A Midsummer-Night’s Dream., (1623), Play, UK
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Strong Poison (1930) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: “Where gat ye your dinner, Lord Rendal, my son? Where gat ye your dinner, my handsome young man?” “- O I dined with my sweetheart, Mother; make my bed soon, For I’m sick to the heart and I fain wad lie down.” “O that was strong poison, Lord Rendal, my son, O that was strong poison, my handsome young man,” “- O yes, I am poisoned, Mother; make my bed soon, For I’m sick to the heart, and I fain wad lie down.”
    FROM: Old Ballad (Lord Randal), (1650), Ballad, UK
• Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1)
  • IN: Have His Carcass (1932) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The track was slippery with spouting blood’
    FROM: Rodolph, (1821), Poem, UK