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Lovelyare the curves of the white owl sweeping Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star. Lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried, Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar.
George Meredith— 1851Poems,'Love in the Valley', stanza 5. The poem was revised and republished in1878.
From you, Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, The substance of my dreams took fire. You built cathedrals in my heart, And lit my pinnacled desire.
— 1918 'Dead Musicians'.
Life is not hurrying on to a receding future, nor hankering after an imagined past. It is the turning aside like Moses to the miracle of the lit bush, to a brightness that seemed as transitory as your youth once, but is the eternity that awaits you.
— 1976 Laboratories of the Spirit,'The Bright Field'.
Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for the better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities, and a disgust for cheapjacks. We ought to smell, as it were, the difference of quality in men and their proposals when we enter the world of affairs about us.
william james— The Social Value of the College-Bred
Together in Britain we have lit a flame that the ages shall not extinguish. Guard that sacred flame, my brother Blackshirts, until it illuminates Britain and lights again the paths of mankind.
oswald mosley— 'Comrades in Struggle' (June 1938)
Life is not hurrying on to a receding future , nor hankering after an imagined past . It is the turning aside like Moses to the miracle of the lit bush, to a brightness that seemed as transitory as your youth once, but is the eternity that awaits you.
r. s. thomas— "The Bright Field", p. 60
Life is not hurrying on to a receding future, nor hankering after an imagined past. It is the turning aside like Moses to the miracle of the lit bush, to a brightness that seemed as transitory as your youth once, but is the eternity that awaits you.
— R. S. Thomas, in "The Bright Field" in Laboratories of the Spirit (1975), p. 60
Specific types of Kundas are recommended for different kinds of Yagnas....A pit for sacrificial fire or a pot ( altar ) or small reservoir/clay-structure (made up on the ground in which the Yagna fire is lit.
— In p.9 (The Integrated Science of Yagna)
The natural world is full of irregularityand random alteration, but in the antiseptic, dust-free, shadowless, brightly lit, abstract realm of the mathematicians they like their cabbages spherical, please.
William Andrew Murray Boyd— 1990 Brazzaville Beach,'Cabbages Are Not Spheres'.
Un homme qui lit, ou qui pense, ou qui calcule, appartient a' l'espe' ce et non au sexe; dans ses meilleurs moments, il e chappe me" me a' l'humain. A person who reads or thinks or calculates, belongs to a kind and not to a gender; in his or her best moments, he or she escapes being human.
Crayencour— 1951Me moires d'Hadrien.
The whole fleet's lit up.When I say 'lit up',I mean by fairy lamps.
— 1937 BBC radio commentary of the Spithead review, 20 May, Britain's first live outside broadcast.'Lit up' was a common euphemism for 'drunk'.
She's got the brown eyes, yeah, and they're pretty as hell,And they'll burn through your shirt if you're holding her still.She's got a lighter, and a lit cigarette,And if you're making her smile, that's just as high as you can get.
ryan adams— Miss Sunflower
We watched her come with subtle fireAnd learned feet,Stumbling among the lustful drunkYet somehow sweet.We saw the crimson leave her cheeksFlame in her eyes;For when a woman lives in awful hasteA woman dies.The jests that lit our hours by nightAnd made them gay,Soiled a sweet and ignorant soulAnd fouled its play.
Djuna Barnes— To a Cabaret Dancer
He did not suffer fools gladly (or at all) and his threshold for foolishness was set rather low. He was the master of the terrifying put-down: with his fine palate he loathed cigarette smoke and once on the train, an acquaintance told me with awe, a woman lit up in the non-smoking carriage near him. When he remonstrated she said: "Oh, it's only ten feet from the smoking section." Freud sprang to his feet and said: "Madam, we're only five feet from the lavatory, is it all right if I piss on the floor?"
clement freud— Quoted in Libby Purves, "Sir Clement Freud: an appreciation," Times Online (2009-04-16)
The boy stood on the burning deck,Whence all but him had fled;The flame that lit the battle's wreckShone round him o'er the dead.
felicia hemans— Casabianca, st. 1 (1826).
L'amour est une source naïve, partie de son lit de cresson, de fleurs, de gravier, qui rivière, qui fleuve, change de nature et d'aspect à chaque flot, et se jette dans un incommensurable océan où les esprits incomplets voient la monotonie, où les grandes âmes s'abîment en de perpétuelles contemplations.
honoré de balzac— Love is like some fresh spring, that leaves its cresses, its gravel bed and flowers to become first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.
Cette vie est un hôpital où chaque malade est possédé du désir de changer de lit.
Charles Baudelaire— This life is a hospital where each patient is possessed by the desire to change his bed.XLVIII: "Anywhere out of the world" [30]
He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human ."
Diogenes of Sinope— Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 41. This line is frequently translated as "I am looking for an honest man."
When I set out for Lyonnesse, A hundred miles away, The rime was on the spray, And starlight lit my lonesomeness.
thomas hardy— When I Set Out For Lyonnesse (1870), lines 1-4, from Satires of Circumstance (1914)
So be it the wind and sun That reared thy limbs and lit thy veins with life Have blown and shone upon thee not for nought If these have fed and fired thy spirit as mine With love, with faith that casts out fear, with joy, With trust in truth and pride in trust if thou Be theirs indeed as theirs am I, with me Shalt thou take part and with my sea-folk aye, Make thine eyes wide and give God wondering thanks That grace like ours is given thee thou shalt bear Part of our praise for ever.
algernon charles swinburne— Faliero, Act III, Sc. 1.
Sa réputation s’affermira toujours, parce qu’on ne le lit guère.
voltaire— His reputation will go on increasing because scarcely anyone reads him."Dante" (1765).
As the Moon rose and the hour grew late, The day help on a Coconut estate raked up the dry leaves that fell dead from the trees, Which they burned in a pile by the lake. The Beetle King summoned his men, and from the top of the Rhododendron stem: "Calling all volunteers who can carry back here, the Great Mystery's been lit once again."
aaron weiss— The King Beetle on a Coconut Estate.
In excited states of the public mind they have scarcely a discretion at all; the tendency of the public perturbation determines what shall and what shall not be dealt with. But, upon the other hand, in quiet times statesmen have great power; when there is no fire lighted, they can settle what fire shall be lit. And as the new suffrage is happily to be tried in a quiet time, the responsibility of our statesmen is great because their power is great too.
walter bagehot— Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution (1867), Introduction, p.xxi.
And he sang: "Hurra for my handiwork!" And the red sparks lit the air; Not alone for the blade was the bright steel made; And he fashioned the first ploughshare.
charles mackay— Charles Mackay, Tubal Cain, Stanza 4.
Writing turned a spotlight on the high, dim Sierras of speech; writing was the visualization of acoustic space. It lit up the dark.
— Marshall McLuhan (1969) Counterblast. p.14
Life is not hurrying on to a receding future, nor hankering after an imagined past. It is the turning aside like Moses to the miracle of the lit bush, to a brightness that seemed as transitory as your youth once, but is the eternity that awaits you.
— R. S. Thomas, in "The Bright Field" in Laboratories of the Spirit (1975), p. 60
Angels shine from without because their spirits are lit from within by the light of God .
— Eileen Elias Freeman, in The Angels' Little Instruction Book : Learning from God's Heavenly Messengers (1994), p. 4, ISBN 0446671215
Now we have lit a candle to the power of atoms; now we know we're heirs of light itself...
— Philip José Farmer, in "Sestina of the Space Rocket" first published in Startling Stories (February 1953); re-published in Pearls From Peoria (2006)
Théâtre des ris et des pleurs lit! où je nais, et où je meurs, Tu nous fais voir comment voisins Sont nos plaisirs et chagrins.
— In bed we laugh, in bed we cry;
And born in bed, in bed we die;
The near approach a bed may show
Of human bliss to human woe.
— Isaac de Benserade, Dr. Johnson's translation.
