Author: Ethel Turner

Cites

• Robert Browning (2)
  • IN: The Wonder-Child (1901) Novel, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, Is, not to fancy what were fair in life, Provided it could be,-- but finding first Whay may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means
    FROM: Bishop Blougram's Apology, (1855), Poem, UK
• W. A. MacKenzie (1)
  • IN: Three Little Maids (1900) Novel, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: O to be young again! O to have dreams and dreams! And to talk in the gardens of Wonderland With stars and flowers and streams!
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: Three Little Maids (1900) Novel, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: What's done cannot be undone ; to bed, to bed, to bed.
    FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
• Frederic Edward Weatherly (1)
  • IN: Three Little Maids (1900) Novel, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Far away and yet so near us, lies a land where all have been, Played beside its sparkling waters, danced along its meadows green, Where the busy world we live in, and its noises only seem Like the echo of a tempest, or the shadow of a dream.
    FROM: The Land of Little People, (1886), Poem, UK
• Anne Reeve Aldrich (1)
  • IN: Three Little Maids (1900) Novel, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: If i had guessed, if I had dreamed Its weight was meant for me, I should have built a lighter cross To bear up Calvary.
    FROM: A Little Parable, (1892), Poem, US
• Lewis Carroll (3)
  • IN: Three Little Maids (1900) Novel, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Transportation for life was the sentence it gave, And then to be fined forty pounds.
    FROM: The Hunting of the Snark, (1876), Poem, UK
• Susan Coolidge (1)
  • IN: Three Little Maids (1900) Novel, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Yesterday now is a part of forever With glad days and sad days and bad days that never Shall visit us more with their bloom and their blight, Their fulness of sunshine or sorrowful night.
    FROM: A Few More Verses, (1889), Poem, US
• Adam Lindsay Gordon (1)
  • IN: Three Little Maids (1900) Novel, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: With fire and fierce drought on her tresses Insatiable summer oppresses Sere woodland and sad wildernesses, And faint flocks and herds.
    FROM: A Dedication, (1870), Poem, Australia
• Barrett Browning, Elizabeth (1)
  • IN: Three Little Maids (1900) Novel, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Not so, not cold ! but very poor instead ! Ask God who knows ! for frequent tears have run The colours from my life, and left so dead And pale a stuff, it were not fitly done To give the same as pillow to thy head, Go farther ! Let it serve to trample on.
    FROM: Sonnets from The Portuguese, (1850), Poem, UK
• Jean Paul Richter (1)
  • IN: Three Little Maids (1900) Novel, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: I know of no sweeter emotion, and hardly of a greater one, than when a young man takes a sheaf of paper in his hand and, striding about his room, boldly resolves to turn it into MS.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Lord Byron (1)
  • IN: Three Little Maids (1900) Novel, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Some blank verse and blanker prose, And more of both than any one knows.
    FROM: The Vision of Judgement, (1822), Poem, UK
• William Schwenck Gilbert (1)
  • IN: Three Little Maids (1900) Novel, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: No pretence To intellectual eminence, Or scholarship sublime.
    FROM: Iolanthe, (1882), Play, UK
• William Schwenck and Sullivan, Arthur Gilbert (1)
  • IN: Three Little Maids (1900) Novel, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: Now is not this ridiculous? Now is not this preposterous? A thorough-paced absurdity, Explain it if you can.
    FROM: Patience, (1881), Play, UK
• Rudyard Kipling (1)
  • IN: Three Little Maids (1900) Novel, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: With laughing mouth but tear-wet eye.
    FROM: Evarra and his Gods, (1890), Poem, UK
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Three Little Maids (1900) Novel, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: So lay that afternoon to sleep Among your dearest pansy-knots, The hushed herbarium where you keep Your heart's forget-me-nots.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL