Author: James Justinian Morier

Cites

• Scott (1)
  • IN: Watlington Hill (1812) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: Rememberest thou my greyhounds true?
    FROM: Marmion, (1808), Poem, UK
• Milton (1)
  • IN: Watlington Hill (1812) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures.
    FROM: L'Allegro, (1645), Poem, UK
• NULL (2)
  • IN: Abel Allnutt (1837) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: And if I have done well as is fining the story, it is that which I desired ; but if slenderly and meanly, it is that which I could attain unto.
    FROM: 2 Maccabees, xy. 38, (-124), NULL, NULL
  • IN: Zohrab, the Hostage (1836) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: No kind of literature is so generally attractive as Fiction. Pictures of life and manners, and Stories of adventure, are more eagerly received by the many than graver productions, however important these latter may be. ApuLeius is better remembered by his fable of Cupid and Psyche than by his abstruser Platonic writings; and the Decameron of Boccaccio has out lived the Latin Treatises, and other learned works of that author.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Chaucer (1)
  • IN: Ayesha, the Maid of Kars (1834) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: But matheles while I have time and space Or that I forther in this tale pace, Me thinketh it accordant to reson, To tellen you alle the condition Of eche of hem, so as it seemed to me, And whiche they weren, and of what degre.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Blaise Pascal (1)
  • IN: Ayesha, the Maid of Kars (1834) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Il y a plaisir d'être dans un vaisseau battu de l'orage lorsqu'on est sûr qu'il ne périra point.
    FROM: Pensées de Blaise Pascal., (1670), NULL, France