— F. Anstey English novelist and journalist 1856 - 1934
Источник: The Brass Bottle (1900), Chapter 14, “Since There’s No Help, Come, Let Us Kiss and Part!”
„I love the silent hour of night,
For blissful dreams may then arise,
Revealing to my charmed sight
What may not bless my waking eyes.“
Источник: Best Poems of the Brontë Sisters
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„Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.“
— Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock
Canto V, line 33
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)
— T. E. Lawrence, книга Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Introductory Chapter. Variant: This, therefore, is a faded dream of the time when I went down into the dust and noise of the Eastern market-place, and with my brain and muscles, with sweat and constant thinking, made others see my visions coming true. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922)
— John Keble English churchman and poet, a leader of the Oxford Movement 1792 - 1866
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 90.
— William Mountford English Unitarian preacher and author 1816 - 1885
Источник: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 406.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon English poet and novelist 1802 - 1838
(27th July 1822) Sketches from Drawings by Mr. Dagley. Sketch the First. Time arresting the Career of Pleasure.
The London Literary Gazette, 1821-1822
„May I look on thee when my last hour comes; may I hold thy hand, as I sink, in my dying clasp.“
Te spectem, suprema mihi cum venerit hora,<br/>Et teneam moriens deficiente manu.
— Tibullus poet and writer (0054-0019) -50 - -19 до н.э.
Te spectem, suprema mihi cum venerit hora,
Et teneam moriens deficiente manu.
Bk. 1, no. 1, line 59.
Variant translation: May I be looking at you when my last hour has come, and dying may I hold you with my weakening hand.
Elegies
— L.J. Smith American author 1965
Источник: Secret Circle Booklet
— Thomas Campbell British writer 1777 - 1844
Lochiel's Warning http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/48723 (1802), a poem regarding "Gentle Lochiel", Donald Cameron of Lochiel, and the final defeat of his forces and other Jacobites at the Battle of Culloden, in which he was badly wounded.
— Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman 1533 - 1592
„I am influenced by every second of my waking hour.“
— Lenny Bruce, книга How to Talk Dirty and Influence People
Источник: How to Talk Dirty and Influence People
„I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.
What hours, O what black hoürs we have spent
This night!“
— Gerard Manley Hopkins English poet 1844 - 1889
" I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day http://www.bartleby.com/122/45.html", lines 1-3
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
— Stephen Grellet American Quaker missionary 1773 - 1855
As quoted in Stephen Grellet (1880) by Rev. William Guest, p. 146
— Van Morrison Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician 1945
Give Me My Rapture.
Источник: Song lyrics, Poetic Champions Compose (1987)
„Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.“
— William Shakespeare, книга Romeo and Juliet
Источник: Romeo and Juliet