Book Review: The Song of Roland Translated by Fredric Goldin
“No day will pass that I feel no pain for you.”
– Charlemagne
(Laisse 207. 2901)
“No day will pass that I feel no pain for you.”
– Charlemagne
(Laisse 207. 2901)
“When Jesus therefore had seen his mother and the disciple standing whom he loved, he saith to his mother: Woman, behold thy son.”
– John 19:26
“The Greek epics express, with an incomparable depth and fulness, the eternal knowledge of truth and destiny which is the creation of the heroic age—the age that cannot be destroyed by any bourgeois ‘progress’.”
– Werner Jaeger
“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.”
– Ephesians 5:11
“Thou touchedst me, and I burned for Thy peace.” – St. Augustine
“If thy heart be pure / The Grail will be to thee as food and drink!” – Gurnemanz
“An indomitable pride incessantly leads them to overthrow everything they have not made; and to create anew they separate themselves from the principle of all existence.” – Joseph de Maistre
“Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.”
– 1 Peter 2:17
“I will arise, and will go to my father, and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee: I am not worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.”
– Luke 15:18-19