Quotes from George MacDonald's books, and about them
At the Back of the North Wind on Kilmeny: “The peasant girl--Kilmeny was her name--could not report such grand things as Durante, for, as the shepherd says, telling her story as I tell Diamond's--”
Phantastes on The Faerie Queene: “The noble hart that harbours vertuous thought And is with childe of glorious great intent, Can never rest, until it forth have brought Th' eternall brood of glorie excellent." SPENSER, The Faerie Queene.”
Phantastes on The Revenger's Tragedy: “I think man's happiest when he forgets himself." CYRIL TOURNEUR, The Revenger's Tragedy.”
Phantastes on Das Ideal und das Leben: “Ev'n the Styx, which ninefold her infoldeth Hems not Ceres' daughter in its flow; But she grasps the apple--ever holdeth Her, sad Orcus, down below." SCHILLER, Das Ideal und das Leben.”
Phantastes on Sir Andrew Barton: “Fight on, my men, Sir Andrew sayes, A little I am hurt, but yett not slaine; I'le but lye downe and bleede awhile, And then I'le rise and fight againe." Ballad of Sir Andrew Barton.”
Phantastes on The Pardoner's Tale: ““And on the ground, which is my modres gate, I knocke with my staf; erlich and late, And say to hire, Leve mother, let me in.” CHAUCER, _The Pardoneres Tale_.”