WORLD WORLD
'Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat,
To peep at such a world; to see the stir
Of the Great Babel, and not feel the crowd.
And for the few that only lend their ear,
That few is all the world.
Samuel Daniel—Musophilus. St. 97.
Vien dietro a me, e laseia dir le genti.
Come, follow me, and leave the world to its
Dante—Pwgatorio. V. 13.
Quel est-il en effet? C'est un verre qui luit,
Qu'un souffle peut detruire, et qu'un souffle a
produit.
What is it [the world] , in fact? A glass which
shines, which a breath can destroy, and which
a breath has produced.
De Cattx—L'Horloge de Sable. (1745) In
D'Israeli's Curiosities of Literature. Imitations and Similarities.
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| text = <poem>I am a citizen of the world.
Diogenes Laerti0s.
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The world is a wheel, and it will all come round
right.
Benj. Disraeli—Endymion. Ch. LXX.
Since every man who lives is born to die,
And none can boast sincere felicity,
With equal mind, what happens let us bear,
Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond
our care.
Like pilgrims, to th' appointed place we tend;
The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.
Dryden—Palamon and Arcite. Bk. III. L.
2,159.
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| text = The world's a stage where God's omnipotence,
His justice, knowledge, love and providence,
Do act the parts.
Dtr Bartas—Divine Weekes and Workes.
First Week. First Day.
I take the world to be but as a stage,
Where net-maskt men doo play their personage.
Dtr Bartas—Divine Weekes and Workes.
Dialogue Between Heraclitus and Democritus.
The world is a stage; each plays his part, and
receives his portion.
Found in Winschooten's Seeman. (1681)
Bohn's Collection, 1857. Juvenal—Satires.
III. 100. (Natio comceda est.)
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| text = <poem>But they will maintain, the state of the world;
And all their desire is in the work of their craft.
Ecclesiasticus. XXXVIII. 34.
Pythagoras said that this world was like a stage,
Whereon many play their parts; the lookers-on
the sage
Philosophers are, saith he, whose part is to learn
The manners of all nations, and the good from
the bad to discern.
Richard Edwards—Damon and Pythias.
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| text = <poem>Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home;
Thou art not my friend; I am not thine.
Emerson—Good-bye, Proud World! ("And
I," in later Ed.}})
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| text = <poem>Shall I speak truly what I now see below?
The World is all a carkass, smoak and vanity,
The shadow of a shadow, a play
And in one word, just Nothing.
Owen Pelltham—Resolves. P. 316. (Ed.
1696) From the Latin said to have been
left by Lipsius to be put on his grave.
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| text = <poem>Map me no maps, sir; my head is a map, a map
of the whole world.
Fielding—Rape upon Rape. Act I. Sc. 5.
Long ago a man of the world was defined as a
man who in every serious crisis is invariably
wrong.
Fortnightly Review. Armageddon—and After.
Nov., 1914. P. 736.
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| text = <poem>Mais dons ce monde, il n'y a rien d'assure que
le mort et les impots.
But in this world nothing is sure but death
and taxes.
Franklin—Letter to M. Leroy. (1789)
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| text = <poem>Eppur si muove. (Epur.)
But it does move.
Galileo—Before the Inquisition. (1632)
Questioned by Karl von Geble; also by
Prop. Heis, who says it appeared first in
the Dictionnaire Historique. Caen. (1789)
Guisar says it was printed in the Lehrbuch
der Oeschichte. Wurtzburg. (1774) Conceded to be apocryphal. Earliest appearance in Abbe Irailh—Querelle's Litteraires.
mondo 6 un bel libro, ma poco serve a chi
non lo sa leggere.
The world is a beautiful book, but of little
use to him who cannot read it.
Goldoni—Pamela. I. 14.
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| text = <poem> fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay;
Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade—
A breath can make them, as a breath has made—
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride.
When once destroy'd can never be supplied.
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| work = Deserted Village. L. 51.
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| text = <poem>Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!
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| work = Traveller. L. 50.
Earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice of
God.
Hageman—Silence.
