splendour quotes

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.

- Robert Browning
  Dramatis Personae,'A Death in the Desert'.

Seldom can the unhappy be persuaded that the evil of the day is sufficient for it; and the ambitious will not be content with the present splendour, but paints yet more glorious triumphs, on the cloud curtain of the future.

-Thomas Carlyle
  Signs of the Times.

Heaven's splendour over his head, Hell's darkness under his feet.

-Thomas Carlyle
  Past and Present, bk.2, ch.15.

O worship the King, all glorious above; O gratefully sing his power and his love: Our Shield and Defender, the Ancient of Days, Pavilioned in splendour, and girded with praise.

- Sir Robert Grant
  'O worship the King, all glorious above', collected in Sacred Poems (1839).

Soul of my lie, and fame! Eternal lamp of love! whose radiant flame Out-glares the Heav'ns Osiris; and thy gleams Out-shine the splendour of his mid-day beams.

- Robert Herrick
  'The Welcome to Sack'.

'Tis use alone that sanctifies expense, And splendour borrows all her rays from sense.

- Alexander Pope
Epistles to Several Persons,'To Lord Burlington', l.179^80.

Earth hath not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will; Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!

-William Wordsworth
  Of London.'Composed uponWestminster Bridge', complete poem. (Published1807).

Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not.

-William Wordsworth
c.1802^1803  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood', stanza10 (published1807).