Lustre Quotes
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The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow, Gave the lustre of midday to objects below, When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer.
Clement Moore— The Night Before Christmas (1822)
The moon pull'd off her veil of light, that hides her face by day from sight (Mysterious veil, of brightness made, That's both her lustre and her shade). And in the lantern of the night, with shining horns hung out her light.
— Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part II (1664), Canto I, line 905.
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the lustre of it will never appear.
Daniel Defoe— 1697 An Essay upon Projects,'Of Academies: An Academy for Women'.
The day becomes more solemn and serene When noon is pastthere is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard or seen, As if it could not be, as if it had not been!
Percy Bysshe Shelley— 1816 'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty'.
You will see Coleridgehe who sits obscure In the exceeding lustre and the pure Intense irradiation of a mind, Which, through its own internal lighting blind, Flags wearily through darkness and despair A cloud-encircled meteor of the air, A hooded eagle among blinking owls You will see Huntone of those happy souls Which are the salt of the earth, and without whom This world would smell like what it isa tomb.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— 1820 'Letter to Maria Gisborne' l.202-11.
The ultimate source of energy, the sun is ready to set. The leaves of the blooming lotus flower in the pond are losing their lustre. A bumblebee, sitting on that lotus is enjoying the romantic pleasure and murmuring passionate songs.
manmohan acharya— Introduction
"I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in love with the young widow, I think, nor she with me - that's certain - but if I find a little pleasure in her society I may surely be allowed to seek it; and if the star of her divinity be bright enough to dim the lustre of Eliza's, so much the better, but I scarcely can think it."
anne brontë— Gilbert Markham (Ch. VI : Progression)
He got used early to the adulation of a wide public and eventually decided that he could do without it; long before the end, fame had to chase him far harder than he chased it. But among his fellow practitioners his lustre was undimmed, unequalled. and unchallenged. ... Just as the astronauts riding up on their rockets all worshipped Chuck Yeager, the jet pilot who never joined them in space because he flew too well with wings, so the media millionaires all knew that Cook was the unsurpassable precursor who had done it all before they did, and done it better.
Peter Cook— Clive James, in an online tribute.
No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears,No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty’s ears,Not the bright stars which Night’s blue arch adorn,Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn,Shine with such lustre as the tear that flowsDown Virtue’s manly cheek for others’ woes.
erasmus darwin— The Botanic Garden (1791), Part ii, Canto iii, line 459.
One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
william hazlitt— No. 162 (Lecture VIII, "On the Living Poets")
The triumphs of the warrior are bounded by the narrow theatre of his own age; but those of a Scott or a Shakspeare will be renewed with greater and greater lustre in ages yet unborn, when the victorious chieftain shall be forgotten, or shall live only in the song of the minstrel and the page of the chronicler.
william h. prescott— "Sir Walter Scott" (1838), p. 239
The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.
william cowper— William Cowper, Retirement, line 715.
But truths on which depends our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn, Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a lustre he that runs may read.
william cowper— William Cowper, Tirocinium, line 77.
But in our Sanazarro 'tis not so, He being pure and tried gold; and any stamp Of grace, to make him current to the world, The duke is pleased to give him, will add honour To the great bestower; for he, though allow'd Companion to his master, still preserves His majesty in full lustre.
Philip Massinger— Great Duke of Florence (1627), Act I, scene 1.
'T is so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so. The strange lustre that surrounds him conceals and shrouds him from us; our sight is there broken and dissipated, being stopped and filled by the prevailing light.
Michel de Montaigne— Book III, ch. 7. Of the Inconveniences of Greatness
The day becomes more solemn and serene When noon is past; there is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard or seen, As if it could not be, as if it had not been! Thus let thy power, which like the truth Of nature on my passive youth Descended, to my onward life supply Its calm, to one who worships thee, And every form containing thee, Whom, SPIRIT fair, thy spells did bind To fear himself, and love all human kind.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, st. 7.
Affliction is the good man's shining scene; Prosperity conceals his brightest ray; As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
Edward Young— Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night IX, line 415.
Might his last glance behold the glorious ensign of the Republic still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in all their original lustre.
noah webster— Noah Webster, Peroration of the reply to Hayne.
But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun’s palace-porch, where when unyoked chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave: Shake one, and it awakens; then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.
walter savage landor— Walter Savage Landor, Gebir (1798), Book i.
Know you why the robin's breast Gleameth of a dusky red Like the lustre mid the stars Of the potent planet Mars?
— Paul Hamilton Hayne, "Why the Robin's Breast Is Red" in Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne (1882), p. 370.
Squinting upon the lustre Of the rich Rings which on his fingers glistre; And, snuffing with a wrythed nose the Amber, The Musk and Civet that perfum'd the chamber.
guillaume de salluste du bartas— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weekes and Workes, Second Week (1584), Third Day, Part III.
At whose sight, like the sun, All others with diminish'd lustre shone.
— Cicero, Tusculan Disp, Book III. Div. 18. Yonge's translation.
I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan— Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Duenna (1775), Air, Act I, scene 2.
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond; and must be polished, or the lustre of it will never appear
Daniel Defoe— Daniel Defoe, The Education of Women (1719)
Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson in "Self-Reliance", in Essays and English Traits (1841)
Th' imperial ensign, which, full high advanc'd, Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind. With gems and golden lustre rich emblazed, Seraphic arms and trophies.
john milton— John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book I, line 536.
If thou dost play with him at any game, Thou art sure to lose; and, of that natural luck, He beats thee 'gainst the odds; thy lustre thickens When he shines by.
— Soothsayer, scene iii
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.
— Actually a quotation from a letter of Lord Chesterfield dated May 8, 1750.
