grandeur quotes

Our little bit of grandeur isgone.

-Anonymous
  Heard on a Dublin bus shortly after the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 22 Nov, reported by Sheila O'Sullivan.

Hisexpressionmayoftenbe called bald†but it isbaldas 34 the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

- Matthew Arnold
  Essays in Criticism Second Series,'Wordsworth'.

From scenes like these, old S's grandeur springs, That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, 'An honest man's the noble work of G'. See Pope 660:25.

- Robert Burns
COTIAOD1785  'The Cotter's Saturday Night', stanza19. The last line is in fact a misquotation of Pope;'noble' was corrected to'noblest' in the1794 edition of Burns's poems.

  From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There isgrandeur in this view of life.

- Charles Robert Darwin
  The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, ch.14.

Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable hour, The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

-Thomas Gray
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.29^36.

The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out like shining from shook foil† Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wearsman'ssmudgeand sharesman'ssmell: thesoil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
  'God's Grandeur'.

   The grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead.

-John Keats
  Endymion, bk.1, l.20^1.

His English reminds me of tattered washing on the line†of stale bean-soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. 566

- H(enry) L(ouis) Mencken
Of President  Warren G Harding. Quoted in Fred Hobson Mencken:  A Life (1994).

On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome.

- EdgarAllan Poe
  'To Helen', stanza 2.