John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
5190 Sir Walter Sott 1771-1832 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 5190 |
| AUTHOR: | Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) |
| QUOTATION: | The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Life of Napoleon. (February, 1807.) |
| WORKS: | Sir Walter Scott Collection. |
| Note 1. A power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.—Daniel Webster: Speech, May 7, 1834. Why should the brave Spanish soldier brag the sun never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king?—Captain John Smith: Advertisements for the Unexperienced, &c. (Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., Third Series, vol. iii. p. 49). It may be said of them (the Hollanders) as of the Spaniards, that the sun never sets on their dominions.—Gage: New Survey of the West Indies. Epistle Dedicatory. (London, 1648.) I am called The richest monarch in the Christian world; The sun in my dominion never sets. Schiller: Don Karlos, act i. sc. 6. Altera figlia Di quel monarca, a cui Nè anco, quando annotta il sol tramonta (The proud daughter of that monarch to whom when it grows dark [elsewhere] the sun never sets).—Guarini: Pastor Fido (1590). On the marriage of the Duke of Savoy with Catherine of Austria. [back] |