56 quotes found
Churchman · English
English churchman
“Great news! bloody news! cried a newsman;The Devil said, Stop, let me see!Great news? bloody news? thought the Devil;The bloodier the better for me.”
“How beautiful is night!A dewy freshness fills the silent air;No mist obscures; nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain,Breaks the serene of heaven:In full-orbed glory, yonder moon divineRolls through the d...”
“And then they knew the perilous Rock,And blest the Abbot of Aberbrothok.”
“Till the vessel strikes with a shivering shock,Oh Christ! It is the Inchcape Rock!”
“Every body is a critic.”
“Will ye believeThe wonders of the ocean? how its shoalsSprang from the wave, like flashing light; .. took wing,And, twinkling with a silver glitterance,Flew through the air and sunshine? yet were t...”
“What will not woman, gentle woman dare,When strong affection stirs her spirit up?”
“And last of all an Admiral came,A terrible man with a terrible name,—A name which you all know by sight very well,But which no one can speak, and no one can spell.”
“Where Washington hath leftHis awful memoryA light for after times!”
“The laws are with us, and God on our side.”
“My days among the Dead are past;Around me I behold,Where'er these casual eyes are cast,The mighty minds of old;My never-failing friends are they,With whom I converse day by day.”
“Yet leaving here a name, I trust,That will not perish in the dust.”
“Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.”
“They sin who tell us love can die;With life all other passions fly,All others are but vanity.. . . . .Love is indestructible,Its holy flame forever burneth;From heaven it came, to heaven returneth....”
“Oh, when a mother meets on highThe babe she lost in infancy,Hath she not then for pains and fears,The day of woe, the watchful night,For all her sorrow, all her tears,An over-payment of delight?”
“Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.”
