Author: Edmund Waller

Cites

• Ovid (1)
  • IN: Poems, &c. written upon several occasions, and to several persons: by Edmond Waller, Esq; (1705) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: Non ego mordaci distrinxi carmine quenquam, Nulla venenato litera Mista joco est.
    FROM: Tristia, Book 2, (8), Poem, Romania

Cited by

• William Rufus Chetwood (1)
  • IN: The Voyages, Dangerous Adventures, and Imminent Escapes of Captain R. Falconer (1766) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Bold were the Men who on the Ocean first Spread their new Sails, when Shipwreck was the worst More Danger now from Man we find, Than from the Rocks, the Billows, or the Wind.
    FROM: "Of a War with Spain, And Fight At Sea", (1658), Poem, UK
• Herman Melville (1)
  • IN: Moby-Dick (1851) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Like Spencer's Talus with his modern flail He threatens ruin with his ponderous tail. ... Their fixed jav'lins in his side he wears, And on his back a grove of pikes appears.
    FROM: Battle of the Summer Islands, (1645), Poem, UK