Author: John Masefield

Cites

• Thomas Shadwell (1)
  • IN: Multitude and Solitude (1909) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: What play do they play? Some confounded play or other. Let's send for some cards. I ne'er saw a play had anything in't.
    FROM: A True Widow, (1679), Book, NULL
• John Lydgate (1)
  • IN: The Everlasting Mercy (1911) Poetry, British
    EPIGRAPH: Thy place is biggyd above the sterrys deer, Noon erthely paleys wrouhte in so statly wyse, Com on my freend, my brothir moost enteer, For the I offryd my blood in sacrifise.
    FROM: Lyk a Lambe Offryd in Sacrifice, (1447), Poem, UK

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• John Lutz (1)
  • IN: Spark (1993) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Only stay quiet, while my mind remembers The beauty of fire from the beauty of embers.
    FROM: On Growing Old, (1919), Poem, UK
• Paul Christopher (1)
  • IN: Valley of The Templars (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Caesar turned in his bed and muttered, With a struggle for breath the lamp-flame guttered; Calpurnia heard her husband moan: "The house is falling, The beaten men come into their own."'
    FROM: The Rider at the Gate, (1926), Poem, UK