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When man seized the loadstone of science , the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds.
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The songs I had are withered Or vanished clean. Yet there are bright tracks Where I have been.
Ivor Gurney— 1922 'The Songs I Had'.
Sudden and magnificent, the sun's broad golden disc showed itself over the horizon facing them; and the first rays, shooting across the level water-meadows, took the animals full in the eyes and dazzled them. When they were able to look once more, the Vision had vanished, and the air was full of the carol of birds that hailed the dawn.
Kenneth Grahame— Ch. 7 (The Reluctant Dragon)
Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.
Robert Browning— 1855 Men and Women,'One Word More. To E.B.B.', stanza 4.
"All right," said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained sometime after the rest of it had gone.
Lewis Carroll— 1865 The disappearance of the Cheshire Cat. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ch.6,'Pig and Pepper'.
One morning, as I was sitting by the fire, a great cloud came over me, and a temptation beset me, and I sate still? And as I sate still under it and let it alone, a living hope rose in me, and a true voice arose in me which cried:There is a living God who made all things. And immediately the cloud and temptation vanished away, and the life rose over it all, and my heart was glad, and I praised the living God.
George Fox— 1648 Journal of George Fox.
Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before
edna st. vincent millay— 1923 Harp-Weaver and Other Poems,'Sonnet19: What lips my lips have kissed'.
What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.
robert e. howard— From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith (c. May 1928)
Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree,Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one,Yet knows its boughs more silent than before:I cannot say what loves have come and gone,I only know that summer sang in meA little while, that in me sings no more.
edna st. vincent millay— Sonnet XLIII: "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why" (1923), Collected Poems", 1931
As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love is born anew.
alfred de musset— Remembrance
"No critic, not even a topical analyst, can escape seeing the musical past from a present perspective. But...the common-language approach of the topical-analyst critics permits a separation between present sensibility and the general sensibilities of the late eighteenth century, allowing for an ever-evolving dialogue between the vanished past and the evanescent present."
harold powers— Harold Powers, "Reading Mozart's Music", p.43.
God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. … and afterwards, to prove my new-found atheism, I bought myself a rather tasteless ham sandwich, and so partook for the first time of the forbidden flesh of the swine. No thunderbolt arrived to strike me down. … From that day to this I have thought of myself as a wholly secular person.
salman rushdie— "In God We Trust" (1985)
Wherever public worship has been established and regularly aintained, idolatry has vanished from the face of the earth. There is not now a temple to a heathen god where the word of God is read.
matthew simpson— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 34.
The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths, all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— Wallenstein, part i. Act ii, scene 4 (translated from Schiller.)
Sweet April - time O cruel April-time! Year after year returning, with a brow Of promise , and red lips with longing paled, And backward-hidden hands that clutch the joys Of vanished springs, like flowers .
dinah maria mulock— "April", in Poems (1859).
The temple of the sylvan goddess, indeed, has vanished, and the King of the Wood no longer stands sentinel over the Golden Bough.
james frazer— Chapter 69, Farewell to Nemi
The US its bankrupt mortgage institutions nationalised and its gigantic war machine effectively funded by foreign borrowing is in steep decline. With its financial system in the worst mess since the 1930s, the west's ability to shape events is dwindling by the day. Sermonising about "law-based international relations" is laughable after Iraq, and at bottom not much more than nostalgia for a vanished hegemony.
john n. gray— "Folly of the progressive fairytale," The Observer (2008-09-08)
The birds have vanished down the sky. Now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.
li bai— [38] Alone Looking at the MountainTranslation by Sam Hamill
America today is a confused society, caught up in a terror war, a culture war, and a media war, where honesty and professional standards have vanished.
Bill O'Reilly— The O'Reilly Factor (Fox News), 23 March 2007
The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths, all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason.
friedrich von schiller— Act II, sc. iv.
The street's alive as secret debts are paid, Contacts made, they vanished unseen. Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades Hustling for the record machine. The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland.
Bruce Springsteen— "Jungleland"
When man seized the loadstone of science , the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds.
— Reported in Maturin Murray Ballou, Treasury of thought: Forming an encyclopedia of quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors (1884), p. 460.
All anti-Stalinist forces had been wiped out ... Trotskyism, Zinovievism, and Bukharinism, all drowned in blood, had, like some Atlantis, vanished from all political horizons ... and he himself was now the sole survivor of Atlantis.
— Isaac Deutscher, The Prophet Outcast, 1963, p.419.
When man seized the loadstone of science , the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds .
william r. alger— In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 544:20.
All green was vanished save of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue; Save the green holly with its berries red, And the green moss that o'er the gravel spread.
George Crabbe— George Crabbe, Tales of the Hall (1819).
Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the agèd eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign?
— T. S. Eliot, "Ash Wednesday", part 1
"The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again".
— Early 20th century ornithologist and naturalist, Charles "William Beebe", The Bird: Its Form and Function (1906).
The birds have vanished down the sky. Now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.
— [38] Alone Looking at the Mountain
— Translation by Sam Hamill
Ye say they all have passed away, That noble race and brave; That their light canoes have vanished From off the crested wave; That mid the forests where they roamed There rings no hunter's shout; But their name is on your waters; Ye may not wash it out.
lydia sigourney— Lydia Sigourney, Indian Names.
[Darwin's] triumph has won for us a common height from which we see the whole world of living beings as well as all inorganic nature; phenomena of every order we now regard as expressions of natural causes. The supernatural has no longer a standing is science; it has vanished like a dream, and the halls consecrated to its thraldom of the intellect are becoming radiant with a more cheerful faith.
— Charles Otis Whitman, lecture at Clark University, "A study in evolution, based on color-characters in pigeons, and bearing on moot questions" (1909)
