Frases de Henry Rider Haggard

Sir Henry Rider Haggard foi um escritor britânico, filho de William Meybohm Rider Haggard e Ella Doveton, que escreveu obras como As minas do rei Salomão, entre outras, geralmente protagonizadas por exploradores ingleses que viajavam para a África.

Estudou na Ipswich Grammar School. Aos dezenove anos, foi para a África do Sul como secretário do governador da província de Natal. Quando o Transvaal foi anexado à Grã-Bretanha em 1877, seguiu para lá como comissário especial. Voltou à Inglaterra em 1879, e em 1880 casou-se com Mariana Margitson.

A partir de 1882 começou a escrever romances e, em 1885 lançou com sucesso King As Minas do Rei Salomão, assegurando sua independência financeira. Foi agraciado em 1919 com o título de Sir, por seus feitos brilhantes.

Como funcionário da coroa inglesa na África do Sul, Rider Haggard pôde conhecer vários países e uma enorme quantidade de costumes, crendices e lendas que influenciaram fundamentalmente seu gênio literário.

Além de administrador colonial, foi também agricultor. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. Junho 1856 – 14. Maio 1925
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Henry Rider Haggard: Frases em inglês

“It is easier to destroy knowledge, Ignosi, than to gather it.”

H. Rider Haggard livro King Solomon's Mines

Fonte: King Solomon's Mines (1885), Chapter 15, "Good Falls Sick"

“I looked down the long lines of waving black plumes and stern faces beneath them, and sighed to think that within one short hour most, if not all, of those magnificent veteran warriors, not a man of whom was under forty years of age, would be laid dead or dying in the dust. It could not be otherwise; they were being condemned, with that wise recklessness of human life which marks the great general, and often saves his forces and attains his ends, to certain slaughter, in order to give their cause and the remainder of the army a chance of success. They were foredoomed to die, and they knew the truth. It was to be their task to engage regiment after regiment of Twala’s army on the narrow strip of green beneath us, till they were exterminated or till the wings found a favourable opportunity for their onslaught. And yet they never hesitated, nor could I detect a sign of fear upon the face of a single warrior. There they were—going to certain death, about to quit the blessed light of day for ever, and yet able to contemplate their doom without a tremor. Even at that moment I could not help contrasting their state of mind with my own, which was far from comfortable, and breathing a sigh of envy and admiration. Never before had I seen such an absolute devotion to the idea of duty, and such a complete indifference to its bitter fruits.”

H. Rider Haggard livro King Solomon's Mines

Fonte: King Solomon's Mines (1885), Chapter 14, "The Last Stand of the Greys"

“Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it.”

H. Rider Haggard livro King Solomon's Mines

Fonte: King Solomon's Mines (1885), Chapter 5, "Our March into the Desert"

“It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.”

H. Rider Haggard livro Allan and the Holy Flower

Allan and the Holy Flower (1915), CHAPTER I, BROTHER JOHN

“We white people think that we know everything.”

H. Rider Haggard livro Child of Storm

Child of Storm (1913), CHAPTER I, ALLAN QUATERMAIN HEARS OF MAMEENA

“There is no loneliness like the loneliness of crowds, especially to those who are unaccustomed to them.”

A Tale of Three Lions (1887), CHAPTER I, THE INTEREST ON TEN SHILLINGS

“I am not a nervous man in a general way, and very little troubled with superstitions, of which I have lived to see the folly.”

H. Rider Haggard livro King Solomon's Mines

Fonte: King Solomon's Mines (1885), Chapter 16, "The Place of Death"

“I have never observed that the religious are more eager to die than the rest of us poor mortals.”

H. Rider Haggard livro The Ancient Allan

The Ancient Allan (1920), CHAPTER I, OLD FRIEND