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For wheresoe'er I turn my ravished eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground.
Qui jacet in terra non habet unde cadat. He who is lying on the ground has nowhere to fall.
For the normal business of living man is most at ease on the ground.
Lytle hwile leof beoth grene thonne hie eft fealewiath, feallath on eorthan and forweorniath weorthiath to duste. For a little while the leaves are green. Then they turn yellow, fall to the ground, and perish, turning to dust.
Le Poe' te est semblable au prince des nue es Qui hante la tempe" te et se rit de l'archer; Exile sur le sol au milieu des hue es, Ses ailes de ge ant l'empe" chent de marcher. The Poet is like that prince of the clouds Who haunts the storms and laughs at the archer; Exiled to the ground in the midst of jeers, Hisgiant wings prevent him from walking.
And unto Adam he said,Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which Icommandedthee, saying,Thoushalt noteatof it: cursed istheground for thysake; insorrowshaltthoueat of it all the days of thy life.
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return to the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shall return.
And the L God said,Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:Therefore the L God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the tree of life.
And he said,Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.
He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha, and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
Unrecorded, unrenowned, Men from whom my ways begin, Here I know you by your ground But I know you not within There is silence, there survives Not a moment of your lives.
We therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope ofthe Resurrectionto eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ.
The lot is fallen unto me in a fair ground: yea, I have a goodly heritage. See Kipling 473:53.
Resources left in the ground are saved, not lost.
Leonora, Leonora, How the word rollsLeonora Lion-like, in full-mouthed sound, Marching o'er the metric ground With a tawny tread sublime; So your name moves, Leonora, Down my desert rhyme.
Alas, alas, who's injured by my love? What merchant's ships have my sighs drowned? Who says my tears have overflowed his ground? When did my colds a forward spring remove? When did the heats which my veins fill Add one more to the plaguey bill? Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out still Litigious men, which quarrels move, Though she and I do love.
For lawful power is still superior found, When long driven back, at length it stands the ground.
The tolling bell Measures time not our time, rung by the unhurried Ground swell, a time Older than the time of chronometers.
If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.
I have a feeling I'm falling on rare occasions but most of the time I have my feet on the ground I can't help it if the ground itself is falling.
Les vrais philosophes sont comme les e le phants, qui en marchant ne posent jamais le second pied a' terre que le premier ne soit bien affermi. True philosophers are like elephants, who when walking never placetheir second footontheground untilthefirst is steady.
If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.
He will give himseven feet of English ground, oras much more as he may be taller than other men.
But Oedipus he had the luck For when he hit the ground He bounced up like a jackinabox And knocked his Daddy down.
I want to be progressive without getting both feet off the ground at the same timea progressive who is prudent.
Is not a Patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern ona manstruggling for life inthewater, and,whenhehas reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
It's a pity others had to leave theirs on the ground at Goose Green to prove it.
It is ambition enough to be employed as an under- labourer in clearing ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge. 514
But I suppose even God was born too late to trust the old religion all those settings out that never left the ground, beginning in wisdom, dying in doubt.
Come, knit hands, and beat the ground, In a light fantastic round.
Ye valleys low where the mild whispers use, Of shades and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enameled eyes, That on the green turf such the honeyed showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers.
Out of the fertile ground he caused to grow All trees of noblest kind for sight, smell, taste; And all amid them stood theTree of Life, High eminent, blooming ambrosial fruit Of vegetable gold; and next to life Our death theTree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of good bought dear by knowing ill.
Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem: other creature here Beast, bird, insect, or worm durst enter none; Such was their awe of man.
I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible.From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.
Suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be enquired how the watch happened to be in that place The inference, we think, is inevitable; that the watch must have had a maker, that there must have existed, at some time and at some place or other, an artificer or artificers, who formed it for the purpose whichwe find it actually toanswer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use.
Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here!
The Kamikaze Ground Staff Re-union Dinner.
I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig- tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked.One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poetI saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig-tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.
Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground.
There may be dead ground in between; and I may not have got The knack of judging a distance; I will only venture A guess that perhaps between me and the apparent lovers, (Who, incidentally, appear by now to have finished,) At seven o'clock from the houses, is roughly a distance Of about one year and a half.
Jogging isvery beneficial.It'sverygood for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. It makes it feel needed.
I've already had medical attentiona dog licked me when I was on the ground.
The ground is like a beautiful woman. If you treat her gently, she'll tell you all her secrets.
He who slings mud generally loses ground.
And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together.
The woods decay, the woods decayand fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after manya summer dies the swan. Me only cruel immortality Consumes: I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world.
As for style of writingif one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground.
If I laugh on that particular day I become so filled with Laughing Gas that I simply can't keep on the ground. Even if I smile it happens.The first funny thought, and I'm up like a balloon. And until I can thinkof something serious I can't get down again.
Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground?
Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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