On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they the Colonies raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,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.
Quotes about airs (16 Quotes)
And for these little simple airs --
I love to play them o'er
So much - I dare not promise, now,
To play them never more.
Be not afeard the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
The human race likes to give itself airs. One good volcano can produce more greenhouse gases in a year than the human race has in its entire history.
His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected.
The life of the husbandman,a life fed by the bounty of earth and sweetened by the airs of heaven.
I often regret having come into this petty world not that I hate the world. No ... I love the world, I love high society and even the demimonde, since I'm a sort of demimondaine myself. But what have I come to do on this Earth, which is so earthly and so earthy Do I have duties to perform here have I come here to carry out a missiona commission Have I been sent here to amuse myself to enjoy myself a little ... to forget the miseries of a beyond, which I no longer remember Am I not unwelcome here What should I say to all these questions Thinking, almost from the moment of my arrival, that I was doing some good down here, I began to play a few musical airs which I myself had invented.... All my troubles stemmed from there.
The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as "Soho" poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
She what was honour knew, And with obsequious majesty approv'd My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn all heaven And happy constellations on that hour Shed their selectest influence the earth Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill Joyous the birds fresh gales and gentle airs Whisper'd it to the woods, and from their wings Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub.
You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.
And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse,
If we had to choose one American Idol to go out to dinner with, it would be Fantasia. There are no airs and graces about her... I like her.
The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight.
I certainly don't have any airs about myself.
The martial airs of England Encircle still the earth.