He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.
He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.
The glittering structure of her cultivation sits on her novels like a rather showy icing that detracts from the cake beneath.
Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world as invalids pay a high board. Their virtues are penances. I do not wish to expiate, but to live my life is for itself, and not for spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady. I wish it to be sound and sweet, and not to need diet and bleeding. I ask for primary evidence that you are a man, and refuse this appeal from a man to his actions.
The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness But the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.
The Men O what venerable and reverend creatures did the aged seem Immortal Cherubims And young men glittering and sparkling angels, and maids strange seraphic pieces of life and beauty Boys and girls tumbling in the street, and playing, were moving j.
This city now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning silent bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Small circles glittering idly in the moon, Until they melted all into one track Of sparkling light.
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, then that it should be glittering and unsteady. I wish it to be sound and sweet, and not to need diet and bleeding.
That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.
The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.
Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children.
Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together.
Over the glittering, rattled ladders of shale the birds cross, tangential to the sea at night. Hour upon hour you can sense the undulation of wings. If you lift your cheek quite carefully you can feel the kiss and the wisp of air stirred by the inaudible glide.
Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, Bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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