The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

1912 that she copied this in her handbook from a lecture delivered by Emerson; the quotation was the
occasion of a long controversy, owing to Elbert Hubbard’s claim to its authorship
5.36 Sir William Empson 1906-84
Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.
‘Just a smack at Auden’
It is this deep blankness is the real thing strange.
The more things happen to you the more you can’t
Tell or remember even what they were.
The contradictions cover such a range.
The talk would talk and go so far about.
You don’t want madhouse and the whole thing there.
‘Let it Go’
Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills.
It is not the effort nor the failure tires.
The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.
‘Missing Dates’ (1935)
Seven types of ambiguity.
Title of book (1930)
5.37 Friedrich Engels 1820-95
Der Staat wird nicht ‘abgeschaft’, er stirbt ab.
The State is not ‘abolished’, it withers away.
‘Anti-Dühring’ (1878) pt. 3, ch. 2
See also Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1.86) in Volume II
5.38 Thomas Dunn English 1819-1902
Oh! don’t you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt,
Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown,
Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile,
And trembled with fear at your frown?
‘Ben Bolt’
5.39 Ennius 239-169 B.C.
O Tite tute Tati tibi tanta tyranne tulisti!
O tyrant Titus Tatius, what a lot you brought upon yourself!
‘Annals’ bk. 1 (l. 104 in O. Skutch (ed.) ‘The Annals of Q. Ennius’, 1985)
Moribus antiquis res stat Romana virisque.
The Roman state survives by its ancient customs and its manhood.
‘Annals’ bk. 5 (l. 156 in O. Skutch (ed.) ‘The Annals of Q. Ennius’, 1985)