Author: Thomas Campbell

Cites

• Cibber (1)
  • IN: Life of Mrs. Siddons (1834) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Pity it is that the momentary beauties flowing from a harmonious elocntirm cannot. like those of poetry, be their own 1'ecord;—that the animated graces of the Player can live no longer than the instant breath and motion that represent them; or at least can but faintly glimmer through the memory and imperfect attestation of a few surviving spectators.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Gray (1)
  • IN: Letters on the Condition of the People of Ireland (1846) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Half a word, fixed upon the spot, is worth a cartload of recollections.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• De Foe (1)
  • IN: Letters on the Condition of the People of Ireland (1846) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If I might give a short hint to an impartial writer, It would be to tell him his fate. If he resolves to venture upon the dangerous precipice of telling unbiassed truth, let him proclaim war with mankind— neither to give nor to take quarter. If he tells the crimes of great men, they fall upon him with the iron hands of the law ; if he tells them of their virtues, when they have any, then the mob attacks him with slander. But if he regards truth, let him expect martyrdom on both sides, and then he may go on fearless; and this is the course I take myself.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK

Cited by

• Regina Maria Roche (1)
  • IN: The Tradition of the Castle; Or, Scenes in the Emerald Isle (1824) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: — Oh Erin, my country I though sad and forsaken, In dreams I revisit thy sea-beaten shore; But, alas ! in a far foreign land I awaken, And sign for the friends who can meet me no more."
    FROM: The Exile of Erin, (1800), Poem, UK
• Walter Scott (2)
  • IN: A Legend of Montrose (1819) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: When Albin her claymore indignantly draws, When her bonneted chieftains around her shall crowd, Clan-Ranald the dauntless, and Moray the proud, All plaided and plumed in their tartan array.
    FROM: LOCHEIL’S WARNING, (1802), Poem, UK
• Washington Irving (1)
  • IN: Philip of Pokanoket (1820) Short Story, Literary Essay, American
    EPIGRAPH: As monumental bronze unchanged his look: A soul that pity touch'd, but never shook; Train'd from his tree-rock'd cradle to his bier, The fierce extremes of good and ill to brook Impassive-fearing but the shame of fear- stoic of the woods-a man without a tear.
    FROM: Gertrude of Wyoming; A Pennsylvanian Tale, (1809), Poem, NULL
• Elizabeth Thomas (1)
  • IN: Monte Video: or, The officer's wife and her sister: a novel (1809) Book, British
    EPIGRAPH: There be, perhaps, who barren hearts avow, Cold as the rocks on Torneo's hoary brow; There be, whose loveless wisdom never fail'd, In self-adoring pride securely mail'd; But triumph not, ye peace-enamour'd few; Fire, nature, genius, never dwelt with you! For you no fancy consecrates the scene, Where rapture utter'd vows, and wept between; 'Tis your's, unmov'd, to sever and to meet; No pledge is sacred, and no home is sweet.
    FROM: The Pleasures of Hope, (1799), Poem, UK