So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.
Quotes about revels (9 Quotes)
Oh, haggard mind, groping darkly through the past incapable of detaching itself from the miserable present dragging its heavy chain of care through imaginary feasts and revels, and scenes of awful pomp seeking but a moment's rest among the long-forgotten haunts of childhood, and the resorts of yesterday and dimly finding fear and horror everywhere
Where is our usual manager of mirthWhat revels are in hand Is there no play,To ease the anguish of a torturing hour
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Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress.
Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament;
Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident.
I fear, too early; for my mind misgives
Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars,
Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
With this night's revels and expire the term
Of a despised life, clos'd in my breast,
By some vile forfeit of untimely death.
A life on the ocean wave A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep.
Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.