Beams Quotes
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On woman Nature did bestow two eyes, Like Hemian's bright lamps, in matchless beauty shining, Whose beams do soonest captivate the wise And wary heads, made rare by art's refining.
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There's a long, long trail a-winding Into the land of my dreams, Where the nightingales are singing And a white moon beams; There's a long, long night of waiting Until my dreams all come true, Till the day when I'll be going down that Long, long trail with you.
— Stoddard King, There's a Long, Long Trail. (Popular in the Great War).
No cord norcable cansoforciblydraw, orhold sofast, as love can do with a twined thread.The scorching beams under the equinoctial or extremity of cold within the circle Arctic, where the very seas are frozen, cold or torrid zonecannot avoid orexpel thisheat, fury, and rage of mortal men.
— 1621Anatomy of Melancholy, pt.3, section 2, member1, subsection 2.
How little, mark! that portion of the ball, Where, faint at best, the beams of science fall.
Alexander Pope— 1742 The Dunciad, bk.3, l.83-4.
But we grow old, Ah! when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Through all the circle of the golden year.
Tennyson— 1846 'The GoldenYear', l.47-51.
How sweet I roamed from field to field,And tasted all the summer's pride,Till I the prince of love beheld,Who in the sunny beams did glide!
william blake— Song (How Sweet I Roamed), st. 1
And we are put on earth a little space,That we may learn to bear the beams of love,And these black bodies and this sunburnt faceIs but a cloud, and like a shady grove.
william blake— The Little Black Boy, st. 4
Shall I come, sweet Love, to thee,When the ev'ning beams are set?
thomas campion— Shall I Come, Sweet Love, to Thee?
Stand still, you floods, do not defaceThat image which you bear:So votaries, from every place,To you shall altars rear.No winds but lovers' sighs blow here,To trouble these glad streams,On which no star from any sphereDid ever dart such beams.
thomas carew— "On Sight Of A Gentlewoman's Face In The Water".
Calm was the day, and through the trembling airSweet-breathing Zephyrus did softly play—A gentle spirit, that lightly did delayHot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair
Edmund Spenser— Line 1.
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act V, scene 1, line 90.
Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather Strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams; Somewhere above us, in elusive ether, Waits the fulfilment of our dearest dreams.
bayard taylor— Bayard Taylor, Ad Amicos.
Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers Is reason to the soul; and as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky Not light us here, so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day: And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere, So pale grows reason at religion's sight, So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.
john dryden— Religio Laici (1682).
The rest to some faint meaning make pretense, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through and make a lucid interval; But Shadwell's genuine night admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day.
john dryden— l. 19-24. (Mac Flecknoe (1682))
Why, you might read two sonnets, ere they reach To where the hurrying freshnesses aye preach A natural sermon o’er their pebbly beds; Where swarms of minnows show their little heads, Staying their wavy bodies ’gainst the streams, To taste the luxury of sunny beams Temper’d with coolness.
john keats— "I Stood Tiptoe", l. 72.
Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling!
walt whitman— Drum-Taps. Give me the splendid Silent Sun.
The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet violence whether they will or not.
ralph cudworth— p. 604. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance with joy.
ralph waldo emerson— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Conduct of Life, Behavior.
Love's heralds should be thoughts, Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams, Driving back shadows over louring hills; Therefore do nimble-pinion'd doves draw love, And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.
— Act II, scene 5, line 4.
One of those passing rainbow dreams, Half light, half shade, which fancy's beams Paint on the fleeting mists that roll, In trance or slumber, round the soul!
thomas moore— Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh (1817), Fire Worshippers, Stanza 54.
The house-builder at work in cities or anywhere, The preparatory jointing, squaring, sawing, mortising, The hoist-up of beams, the push of them in their places, laying them regular, Setting the studs by their tenons in the mortises, according as they were prepared, The blows of the mallets and hammers.
walt whitman— Walt Whitman, Song of the Broad-Axe, Part III, Stanza 4.
Napoleon's troops fought in bright fields where every helmet caught some beams of glory; but the British soldier conquered under the cold shade of aristocracy.
— Sir W. F. P. Napier, History of the Peninsular War, II, 401 (Ed. 1851).
What whispers so strange at the hour of midnight, From the aspen leaves trembling so wildly? Why in the lone wood sings it sad, when the bright Full moon beams upon it so mildly?
— B. S. Ingemann, The Aspen.
She sang how in his ship a man would go From Belem to avenge the cruel shame. The weight it bears the ocean shall not know, That great Pacheco who shall justly claim Of Portuguese Achilles' glorious name; When he embarks, the surging waves his weight Shall feel, and all the vessel's beams and frame Shall groan oppressed beneath the burthen great, And in the water sink below its usual state.
— Translated by Robert Ffrench Duff, in The Lusiad of Camoens translated into English Spencerian verse (1880), p. 365
To-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived to-day.
Abraham Cowley— Abraham Cowley, A Vote, last lines.
This bottle's the sun of our table, His beams are rosy wine; We planets that are not able Without his help to shine.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan— Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Duenna (1775), Act III, Scene 5.
The Greeks elaborated several theories of vision. According to the Pythagoreans , Democritus , and others vision is caused by the projection of particles from the object seen, into the pupil of the eye. On the other hand Empedocles , the Platonists , and Euclid held the strange doctrine of ocular beams, according to which the eye itself sends out something which causes sight as soon as it meets something else emanated by the object.
— Florian Cajori, A History of Physics in its Elementary Branches (1899)
The Greeks elaborated several theories of vision. According to the Pythagoreans , Democritus , and others vision is caused by the projection of particles from the object seen, into the pupil of the eye. On the other hand Empedocles , the Platonists , and Euclid held the strange doctrine of ocular beams, according to which the eye itself sends out something which causes sight as soon as it meets something else emanated by the object.
— Florian Cajori, A History of Physics in its Elementary Branches (1899)
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
— Csoma de Koros quoted by Evans-Wentz in Stanza 74 Tibeton Yoga & Its Secret Doctrine p.61
