"Who is credited with first use of the expression ""Fools rush in where angels fear to tread""?"
"part of the popular lexicon, and has been used for and in various works. (much punctuation is missing) An Essay on Criticism An Essay on Criticism is one of the first major poems written by the English writer Alexander Pope (1688–1744). It is the source of the famous quotations ""To err is human, to forgive divine,"" ""A little learning is a dang'rous thing"" (frequently misquoted as ""A little knowledge is a dang'rous thing""), and ""Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."" It first appeared in 1711 after having been written in 1709, and it is clear from Pope's correspondence"
"on Criticism"" was famously and fiercely attacked by John Dennis, who is mentioned mockingly in the work. Consequently, Dennis also appears in Pope's later satire, ""The Dunciad"". Part II of ""An Essay on Criticism"" includes a famous couplet: This is in reference to the spring in the Pierian Mountains in Macedonia, sacred to the Muses. The first line of this couplet is often misquoted as ""a little ""knowledge"" is a dangerous thing"". The ""Essay"" also gives this famous line (towards the end of Part II): The phrase ""fools rush in where angels fear to tread"" from Part III has become"
"rescuer's scoffing remark that it would be better to keep one's mind on the earth. The Roman poet Ennius summed up the lesson to be learned from the story in the line (""No one regards what is before his feet when searching out the regions of the sky"") and was twice quoted by Cicero to this effect. The anecdote was repeated as an amusing story in the English jest book ""Merry Tales and Quick Answers"" (1530). In this the philosopher Meanwhile, Andrea Alciato was mounting a more serious attack on astrology in his ""Book of Emblems"", the first of many"
"must be St. Nick. More rapid than eagles his coursers they came, And he whistled, and shouted, and call'd them by name: ""Now, Dasher! Now, Dancer! Now, Prancer, and Vixen! ""On, Comet! On, Cupid! On, Dunder and Blixem! ""To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall! ""Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!"" As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky; So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, In ""An American Anthology, 17871900"", Edmund Clarence Stedman reprints the 1844 Clement C. Moore"
"Germanicus Caesar (15 BCE – 19 CE) in the Greek Anthology. There it is applied to a hare in flight from a dog that attempts to escape by jumping into the sea, only to be seized by a 'sea-dog'. The Latin equivalent was the seafaring idiom 'He runs on Scylla, wishing to avoid Charybdis' (""incidit in scyllam cupiens vitare charybdim""), a parallel pointed out by Edmund Arwaker in the moral that follows his verse treatment of the fable. The earliest recorded use of the English idiom was by Thomas More in the course of a pamphlet war with William Tyndale."
"mistaken in your history. That which I most fear in the matter is lest Mr. B or some of Connecticut should clash with ours and contradict each other in the story as to matter of fact."" Wilson concludes that ""Mr. B"" was probably Gershom Bulkeley, a political opponent of the Puritans who was part of Talcott's force. The first publication of the angel tale was apparently in the late 18th century by Thomas Hutchinson in his ""History of the Province of Massachusetts Bay"", in which he describes the tale as having originated with John Leverett's family. Subsequent historians picked up"
"Where Angels Fear to Tread (film) Where Angels Fear to Tread is a 1991 British drama film directed by Charles Sturridge. The screenplay by Sturridge, Tim Sullivan, and Derek Granger is based on the 1905 novel of the same title by E. M. Forster. Recently widowed and anxious to escape the clutches of her oppressively meddlesome in-laws, free-spirited Lilia Herriton, née Theobald (Helen Mirren) travels to the hillside Tuscan town of Monteriano with her young friend Caroline Abbott (Helena Bonham Carter). There she falls in love with both the countryside and Gino Carella, a handsome young villager, and she decides"
"have been written by the German mystic Heinrich Seuse circa 1328. According to folklore, Seuse heard angels sing these words and joined them in a dance of worship. In his biography (or perhaps autobiography), it was written: Now this same angel came up to the Servant (Suso) brightly, and said that God had sent him down to him, to bring him heavenly joys amid his sufferings; adding that he must cast off all his sorrows from his mind and bear them company, and that he must also dance with them in heavenly fashion. Then they drew the Servant by the"
"had used it as an argument against the Docetae. Justin, Hippolytus, Dionysus, Eusebius, Epiphanius, Chrysostom, Jerome, Augustine, Theodoret, Leontius, Cosmas, Facundus, Theodore Hilary of Poitiers: ""(...) let not the heretics encourage themselves that herein lies a confirmation of His weakness, that He needed the help and comfort of an angel. Let them remember the Creator of the angels needs not the support of His creatures."" (""De Trinitate"", Book 10, para. 41). Theodore of Mopsuestia wrote: ""When our Lord was in deep thought and fear at the approach of His Passion, the blessed Luke said that 'an angel appeared to Him"
"have to make shoes here"", implying that he would instead turn to poetry and achieve perfection in it. On special occasions, a procession of the greatest people in history is formed, including Buddha, William Shakespeare, Homer, Muhammed, Daniel, Ezekiel, Jeremiah and several unknown people whose talents far exceeded those of the world's pivotal figures, but were never famous. As Stormfield proceeds through heaven, he learns that the conventional image of angels as winged, white-robed figures bearing haloes, harps, and palm leaves is a mere illusion generated for the benefit of humans, who mistake ""figurative language"" for accurate description; that all"
"quote to Augustine of Hippo. Other attributions named Pliny the Younger, Seneca, Quintilian or Augustine, but the existence of the phrase cannot be substantiated as predating the early modern period. The phrase was in origin a dismissal of eclecticism, i.e. the ""fear"" is of the formidable intellectual opponent who has dedicated himself to and become a master in a single chosen discipline; however, the phrase today most often refers to the interpretation of expressing ""fear"" of the opinions of the illiterate man who has ""only read a single book"". The literary critic Clarence Brown described the phrase in his introduction"
"can only see tracks going in, but none coming out"". The earliest application of the fable is in an economic context in First Alcibiades, a dialogue often ascribed to Plato and dated to the 4th century BCE. There Socrates tries to dissuade a young man from following a political career and, in describing the Spartan economy, says: The fable is also one among several to which the Latin poet Horace alluded in his work, seeing in it the moral lesson that once tainted with vice there is no returning. Condemning the get-rich-quick culture of the Roman bankers in his first"
"and ""Husbands and Wives"". Image Entertainment released the film in anamorphic widescreen format on Region 1 DVD on 7 November 2006. The only bonus feature is the original trailer. Where Angels Fear to Tread (film) Where Angels Fear to Tread is a 1991 British drama film directed by Charles Sturridge. The screenplay by Sturridge, Tim Sullivan, and Derek Granger is based on the 1905 novel of the same title by E. M. Forster. Recently widowed and anxious to escape the clutches of her oppressively meddlesome in-laws, free-spirited Lilia Herriton, née Theobald (Helen Mirren) travels to the hillside Tuscan town of"
"their place of business and walked off a trading floor in handcuffs with a uniformed police escort, as Charlie Sheen's character Bud Fox is in Oliver Stone's 1987 film ""Wall Street"". ""Rudy Giuliani made an art form out of [the perp walk]"", says Loyola Law School professor Laurie Levenson. Former Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau agrees, calling Giuliani ""the master of the perp walk"". At the same time, the term ""perp walk"" became common usage for the practice. ""New York Times"" language columnist William Safire found 1986 to be its earliest use in the media. His colleague John Tierney claims"
"psychotherapy and the psychotherapies made available to clients. The ""Dodo bird verdict"" terminology was coined by Saul Rosenzweig in 1936 to illustrate the notion that all therapies are equally effective. Rosenzweig borrowed the phrase from Lewis Carroll's 1865 book, ""Alice in Wonderland"", wherein a number of characters become wet and, in order to dry themselves, the Dodo Bird decided to issue a competition: everyone was to run around the lake until they were dry. Nobody cared to measure how far each person had run, nor how long. When they asked the Dodo who had won, he thought long and hard"
"This phrase was also used by British politician (and classicist) Enoch Powell in his 1968 speech on immigration commonly known as the ""Rivers of Blood"" speech. Whom the gods would destroy The phrase ""Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad"" is spoken by Prometheus, in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem ""The Masque of Pandora"" (1875). An early version of the phrase ""Whom the gods would destroy..."" appears in verses 620–23 of Sophocles’ play ""Antigone"": ""τὸ κακὸν δοκεῖν ποτ᾽ ἐσθλὸν τῷδ᾽ ἔμμεν' ὅτῳ φρένας θεὸς ἄγει πρὸς ἄταν"" to mean that ""evil appears as good in the minds of those"
"The Angel of the Revolution The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror (1893) is a science fiction novel by the English writer George Griffith. It was his first published novel and remains his most famous work. It was first published in ""Pearson's Weekly"" and was prompted by the success of ""The Great War of 1892"" in ""Black and White"" magazine, which was itself inspired by ""The Battle of Dorking"". A lurid mix of Jules Verne's futuristic air warfare fantasies, the utopian visions of ""News from Nowhere"" and the future war invasion literature of Chesney and his"
"cloth, and a pair of shoes of velvet green"" (A) or ""tongue that can never lie"" (B) or both (C). Version E uniquely mentions the Queen's fear that Thomas may be chosen as ""teinding unto hell"", that is to say, the in the form of humans that Elfland is subjected to pay periodically. In the romance, the Queen explains that the collection of the ""fee to hell"" draws near, and Thomas must be sent back to earth to spare him the peril. (See § Literary criticism for further literary analysis.) The ballad was first printed by Walter Scott (1803) then"
"of the four winds in the medieval Jewish ""Book of the Angel Raziel"" which lists him as Usiel (Uzziel); according to it, this book was inscribed on a sapphire stone and handed down from Seraph to Metatron and then to Adam. At the Council of Rome of 745, Pope St. Zachary, intending to clarify the Church's teaching on the subject of angels and curb a tendency toward angel worship, condemned obsession with angelic intervention and angelolatry, but reaffirmed the approval of the practice of the reverence of angels. This synod struck many angels' names from the list of those eligible"
"Seven Archangels The concept of Seven Archangels is found in some works of early Jewish literature. The term archangel itself is not found in equivalent in the Hebrew Bible, and in the Greek New Testament the term archangel only occurs in 1 Thessalonians 4:16 and the Epistle of Jude 1:9, where it is used of Michael, who in Daniel 10:13 is called 'one of the chief princes,' and 'the great prince'. In the Septuagint this is rendered ""the great angel"". The idea of seven archangels is most explicitly stated in the deuterocanonical Book of Tobit when Raphael reveals himself, declaring:"
"his destination and recounts what happened, when suddenly the housecat cries something like ""Then I am the king of the cats!"", rushes up the chimney or out of the door, and is never seen again. In William Shakespeare's ""Romeo and Juliet"", Tybalt is referred to by Mercutio as ""Prince of Cats"", and though this is more likely in reference to Tibert/Tybalt the ""Prince of Cats"" in ""Reynard the Fox"", it demonstrates the existence of the phrase from at least the 16th century in England. ""Beware the Cat"", written in 1553 and first published in 1561, known as the first horror"
"The Angel in the House The Angel in the House is a narrative poem by Coventry Patmore, first published in 1854 and expanded until 1862. Although largely ignored upon publication, it became enormously popular in the United States during the later 19th century and then in Britain, and its influence continued well into the twentieth century as it became part of many English Literature courses once adopted by W. W. Norton & Company into The Norton Anthology of English Literature. The poem was an idealized account of Patmore's courtship of his first wife, Emily Augusta Andrews (1824-1862), whom he married"
"""From bondage to spiritual faith"" is commonly known as the ""Tytler Cycle"" or the ""Fatal Sequence"". Its first known appearance was in a 1943 speech by Henning W. Prentiss, Jr., president of the Armstrong Cork Company and former president of the National Association of Manufacturers, delivered at the February 1943 convocation of the General Alumni Society of the University of Pennsylvania. The speech was subsequently published under the titles ""The Cult of Competency"" and ""Industrial Management in a Republic"". General: Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee FRSE (15 October 1747 – 5 January 1813) was a"
"the grounds. He sold it in 1992. David Bowie made reference to Crowley in the lyrics of his song ""Quicksand"" (1971), while Ozzy Osbourne and his lyricist Bob Daisley wrote a song titled ""Mr. Crowley"" (1980). Crowley began to receive scholarly attention from academics in the late 1990s. Aleister Crowley Aleister Crowley (; born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer. He founded the religion of Thelema, identifying himself as the prophet entrusted with guiding humanity into the Æon of Horus in the early 20th century."
"the theme occur in a number of Old English homilies, including one which quotes in Latin the following words, which it attributes to St. Augustine: ""O homo, dic mihi, ubi sunt reges, ubi sunt principes, ubi imperatores, qui fuerunt ante nos..."" (""O man, tell me, where are the kings, where are the princes, where the emperors, who had been before us""). These derive from the words of Baruch 3:16–19 in the Vulgate Bible: 16 ""ubi sunt principes gentium et qui dominantur super bestias quae sunt super terram""17 ""qui in avibus caeli inludunt""18 ""qui argentum thesaurizant et aurum in quo confidebant"
"that he mentions that these letters are said to have been invented by Gamaliel and transmitted in the a book called ""Liber ignis"" associated with the angel ""Raphiel"". Claude Duret (1570?-1611) included it in his ""Thresor"" (1613, p. 117) under the name ""the characters of the angel Raphael"", citing Ambrosius. Edmund Fry included it in his ""Pantographia"" (pp. 28-29), stating: ""Theseus Ambrosius asserts that this character was brought from Heaven by the Angel Raphael by who it was communicated to Adam who used it in composing Psalms after his expulsion from the terrestrial paradise. Some authors pretend that Moses and"
"of November he passed away. It is possible that the publication in 1907 of Thomas W. Lawson's popular novel ""Friday, the Thirteenth"", contributed to disseminating the superstition. In the novel, an unscrupulous broker takes advantage of the superstition to create a Wall Street panic on a Friday the 13th. A suggested origin of the superstition—Friday, 13 October 1307, the date Philip IV of France arrested hundreds of the Knights Templar—may not have been formulated until the 20th century. It is mentioned in the 1955 Maurice Druon historical novel ""The Iron King"" (""Le Roi de fer""), John J. Robinson's 1989 work"
"the origin of the phrase ""God Speed the Plow"" in a celebration known as Plow Monday and a 14th-century poem: There is an 18th-century English play by Thomas Morton called ""Speed the Plough"", which gave the world the character of that arch-prude Mrs. Grundy. In George Meredith's novel The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, the young protagonist, running away from home, encounters two peasants discussing their experiences, the Tinker and Speed-the-Plow. Describing them to a relative, he says, ""Next, there's a tinker and a ploughman, who think that God is always fighting with the Devil which shall command the kingdoms of"
"tried to win. By winning, the shills encourage others to try — ""It's easy, if you know how to spot it."" At one time a popular scam, it was much practised by Gypsies, a circumstance alluded to by Shakespeare in ""Antony and Cleopatra"" (iv. 12): ""Like a right gipsy, hath, at fast and loose, Beguiled me to the very heart of loss."" Shakespeare also mentions ""Fast and Loose"" in ""King John"" and in ""Love's Labors Lost."" This phrase is often attributed to Shakespeare, but according to the OED, first appears as the title of an epigram in a popular miscellany"
"easy with practice, but after its appearance in Samuel Croxall's ""The Fables of Aesop"" in 1722, the story was given a social interpretation. In his long commentary, Croxall remarks that the lesson to be learned from it is of ‘the two extremes in which we may fail, as to a proper behaviour towards our superiors’, namely bashfulness and ‘overbearing impudence’. Although the proverb 'Familiarity breeds contempt' hardly fits the story as it stands, Jeffreys Taylor made it do so in a poem for children from his ""Aesop in Rhyme"" (1820). In this the fox criticizes the lion's cold behaviour and"
"is well to distinguish in this matter between what is certain and what is in some measure conjectural."" This is an old devotion that was already well established 700 years ago. The Angelus originated with the 11th-century monastic custom of reciting three Hail Marys during the evening, or Compline, bell. The first written documentation stems from the Italian Franciscan friar Sinigardi di Arezzo (died 1282). Franciscan friaries in Italy document the use in 1263 and 1295. The current form of the Angelus prayer is included in a Venetian Catechism from 1560. The older usages seem to have commemorated the resurrection"
"The Angel (Songs of Experience) ""The Angel"" is a poem written by the English poet William Blake. It was published as part of his collection ""Songs of Experience"" in 1794. <poem> I dreamt a dream! What can it mean? And that I was a maiden Queen Guarded by an Angel mild: Witless woe was ne’er beguiled! And I wept both night and day, And he wiped my tears away; And I wept both day and night, And hid from him my heart’s delight. So he took his wings, and fled; Then the morn blushed rosy red. I dried my tears,"
"Angelus Silesius Angelus Silesius (9 July 1677), born Johann Scheffler and also known as Johann Angelus Silesius, was a German Catholic priest and physician, known as a mystic and religious poet. Born and raised a Lutheran, he adopted the name ""Angelus"" (Latin for ""angel"" or ""heavenly messenger"") and the epithet ""Silesius"" (""Silesian"") on converting to Catholicism in 1653. While studying in the Netherlands, he began to read the works of medieval mystics and became acquainted with the works of the German mystic Jacob Böhme through Böhme's friend, Abraham von Franckenberg. Silesius's mystical beliefs caused tension between him and Lutheran authorities"