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The extraordinary patience of things! This beautiful place defaced with a crop of suburban houses How beautiful when we first beheld it, Unbroken field of poppy and lupin walled with clean cliffs; No intrusion but two or three horses pasturing...
robinson jeffers— "Carmel Point"
beheld the duteous son, the sire decayed, The modest matron, and the blushing maid, Forc'd from their homes, a melancholy train, To traverse climes beyond the Western main.
Oliver Goldsmith— Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller (1764), line 407.
Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto V, Stanza 50.
beheld the duteous son, the sire decayed,The modest matron, and the blushing maid,Forc'd from their homes, a melancholy train,To traverse climes beyond the Western main.
Oliver Goldsmith— Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller (1764), line 407.
O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, ally the heat That flames from their large nostrils! thou,O Summer, Beneath our oaks hast slept while we beheld With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.
william blake— 1783 Poetical Sketches,'To Summer'.
I have a passion for the name of 'Mary,' For once it was a magic sound to me; And still it half calls up the realms of fairy, Where I beheld what never was to be.
Robert Byron— 1819-24 Don Juan, canto 5, stanza 4.
And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
Bible (Old Testament)— Numbers 21:9.
When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying,Who then can be saved? But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them,With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
Bible (NewTestament)— St Matthew19:25-6.
I beheld with my eyes. And handled with my hands the gold plates from which it was translated. I also beheld the Interpreters.
oliver cowdery— Miller, Diary, quoted in Bushman, Rough Stone Rolling, p. 78 (October 21, 1848)
When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
Abraham Cowley— Davideis, book i, line 41; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
What self-righteous persons take to themselves, is the same work that Christ was engaged in when He was in His agony and bloody sweat, and when He died on the cross, which was the greatest thing that ever the eyes of angels beheld. Christ could accomplish other parts of this work without cost; but this part cost Him His life, as well as innumerable pains and labors. Yet this is the part which self-righteous persons go about to accomplish for themselves.
jonathan edwards— P. 541. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The friendship of high and sanctified spirits loses nothing by death but its alloy; failings disappear, and the virtues of those whose faces we shall behold no more appear greater and more sacred when beheld through the shades of the sepulchre.
robert hall— P. 254. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
But now mine own eyes have beheld God; but not my natural, but my spiritual eyes, for my natural eyes could not have beheld; for I should have withered and died in his presence; but his glory was upon me; and I beheld his face, for I was transfigured before him.
moses— Book of Moses 1:11
Tell me now in what hidden way isLady Flora the lovely Roman?Where's Hipparchia, and where is Thais,Neither of them the fairer woman?Where is Echo, beheld of no man,Only heard on river and mere—She whose beauty was more than human?—But where are the snows of yester-year?
Dante Gabriel Rossetti— The Ballad of Dead Ladies, st. 1 (1870).
Kabira wept when he beheld the millstone roll, Of that which passes 'twixt the stones, nought goes forth whole.
— Prof. Eastwick's translation. of the Bag-o-Behar. (Garden and the Spring).
Having still in my recollection so many excellent men, to whose grandfathers, upon the same spots, my grandfather had yielded cheerful obedience and reverence, it is not without sincere sorrow that I have beheld many of the sons of these men driven from their fathers' mansions, or holding them as little better than tenants or stewards, while the swarms of Placemen, Pensioners, Contractors, and Nabobs...have usurped a large part of the soil.
william cobbett— Political Register (21 December 1816), quoted in Karl W. Schweizer and John W. Osborne, Cobbett and His Times (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1990), p. 31.
'Twas now the month in which the world began (If March beheld the first created man): And since the vernal equinox, the Sun, In Aries, twelve degrees, or more, had run; When casting up his eyes against the light, Both month, and day, and hour, he measur'd right; And told more truly than th' Ephemeris: For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss. Thus numbering times and seasons in his breast, His second crowing the third hour confess'd.
john dryden— The Cock and the Fox line 445 - 457.
And who can boast he never felt the fires, The trembling throbbings of the young desires, When he beheld the breathing roses glow, And the soft heavings of the living snow; The waving ringlets of the auburn hair, And all the rapturous graces of the fair! Oh! what defence, if fixt on him, he spy The languid sweetness of the stedfast eye! Ye who have felt the dear luxurious smart, When angel-charms oppress the powerless heart, In pity here relent the brow severe, And o'er Fernando's weakness drop the tear.
william julius mickle— Book III. (The Lusiads (1776))
They looking back, all th' Eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late thir happie seat, Wav'd over by that flaming Brand, the Gate With dreadful Faces throng'd and fierie Armes: Som natural tears they drop'd, but wip'd them soon; The World was all before them, where to choose Thir place of rest, and Providence thir guide: They hand in hand with wandring steps and slow, Through EDEN took thir solitarie way.
john milton— x.1532-40 (Paradise Lost (1667))
I have beheld no day since the commencement of hostilities that I have thought her liberties in such eminent danger as at present. Friends and foes seem now to combine to pull down the goodly fabric as we have hitherto been raising at the expence of so much time, blood, and treasure; and unless the bodies politick will exert themselves to bring things back to first principles, correct abuses, and punish our internal foes, inevitable ruin must follow.
— George Washington, letter to George Mason (March 27, 1779), in John C. Fitzpatrick, ed., The Writings of George Washington (1936), vol. 14, p. 300.
The glorious Angel, who was keeping The gates of Light, beheld her weeping; And, as he nearer drew and listen'd To her sad song, a tear-drop glisten'd Within his eyelids, like the spray From Eden's fountain, where it lies On the blue flow'r, which Bramins say Blooms nowhere but in Paradise.
thomas moore— Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh (1817), Paradise and the Peri.
Alas, poor Tom! how oft, with merry heart, Have we beheld thee play the Sexton's part; Each comic heart must now be grieved to see The Sexton's dreary part performed on thee.
Robert Fergusson— Robert Fergusson, Epigram on the Death of Mr. Thomas Lancashire, Comedian.
Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow, Such as Creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV (1818), Stanza 182. Same idea found in Mme. de Staël—Corinne, Book I, Chapter IV (Pub. before Byron).
Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.
seneca the younger— Seneca the Younger, Epistles, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.
algernon charles swinburne— Algernon Charles Swinburne, Essays and Studies, Victor Hugo, L'Année Terrible
What self-righteous persons take to themselves, is the same work that Christ was engaged in when He was in His agony and bloody sweat, and when He died on the cross, which was the greatest thing that ever the eyes of angels beheld. Christ could accomplish other parts of this work without cost; but this part cost Him His life, as well as innumerable pains and labors. Yet this is the part which self-righteous persons go about to accomplish for themselves.
— Jonathan Edwards, p. 541. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Once I beheld a sun, a sun which gilt That sable cloud, and turned it all to gold.
Edward Young— Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night VII, line 815.
I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me, And still it half calls up the realms of fairy, Where I beheld what never was to be.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto V, Stanza 4.
