Peep Quotes
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He was like a man who takes a machine-gun to a shooting gallery. Everybody falls flat on his face, the proprietor at once takes to the hills, and when you cautiously peep up, you find that he has wrecked the place but got three perfect bull's-eyes.
Sean O'Faolain— On Frank O'Connor (pseudonym of Michael O'Donovan), attributed.
Physician art thou?one, all eyes, Philosopher!a fingering slave, One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave?
william wordsworth— 1799 'A Poet's Epitaph', stanza 5 (published1800).
Even in mathematics his whimsical fancy was sometimes suffered to peep out, and little girls who learnt the rudiments of calculation at his knee found the path they had imagined so thorny set about with roses by reason of the delightful fun with which he would turn a task into a joy. But when the fun was over the little girl would find that she had learnt the lesson (all unknowingly) just the same. Happy little girls who had such a master.
isa bowman— Page 5 (The Story of Lewis Carroll (1899))
And Katerfelto, with his hair on endAt his own wonders, wondering for his bread.'T is pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat,To peep at such a world,—to see the stirOf the great Babel, and not feel the crowd.
william cowper— Line 86.
Come out — pretty Rose-Bud, — my lone, timid one!Come forth from thy green leaves, and peep at the sun!For little he does, in these dull autumn hours,At height'ning of beauty, or laughing with flowers.
hannah flagg gould— "The Rose-Bud of Autumn" in The Youth's Coronal (published 1850).
Fall on me like a silent dew,Or like those maiden showersWhich, by the peep of day, do strewA baptism o’er the flowers.
Robert Herrick— "To Music, to becalm his Fever"
And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep.
Henry Vaughan— "They Are All Gone," st. 7.
A fingering slave, One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave.
william wordsworth— Stanza 5. (Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey (1798))
Bang! Now the animal Is dead and dumb and done. Nevermore to peep again, creep again, leap again, Eat or sleep or drink again, oh, what fun!
walter de la mare— Hi!
Now I lay me down to sleep Knowing that your lenses peep Now I eat my daily bread And into the tape spool I'll be fed
andy partridge— "Reel By Real"
One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave.
william wordsworth— William Wordsworth, A Poet's Epitaph, Stanza 5.
Ye monsters of the bubbling deep, Your Maker's praises spout; Up from the sands ye codlings peep, And wag your tails about.
— Cotton Mather, Hymn.
This eternal lila is the eternal truth , and, therefore, its this eternal lila - the playful love-making of Radha and Krishna , which the Vaishnava poets desired to enjoy. If we analyse the Gitagovinda of Jayadeva we shall find not even a single statement which shows the poet's desire to have union with Krishna as Radha had,- he only sings praises the lila of Radha and Krishna and hankers after a chance just to have peep into the divine lila, and this peep into the divine lila is the highest spiritual gain which poets could think of.
— Gautam Dasgupta (1976:125-26), quoted by Wimal Dissanayake, in Narratives of Agency: Self-making in China, India, and Japan, p.132
And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep. So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted dreams, And into glory peep.
Henry Vaughan— Henry Vaughan, Ascension Hymn.
So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try, Mount o'er the Vales, and seem to tread the Sky; Th' Eternal Snows appear already past, And the first Clouds and Mountains seem the last: But those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing Labours of the lengthen'd Way, Th' increasing Prospect tires our wandring Eyes, Hills peep o'er Hills, and Alps on Alps arise!
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1711), Part II, line 32, line 225.
Here she lies a pretty bud, Lately made of flesh and blood; Who, as soone fell fast asleep, As her little eyes did peep. Give her strewings, but not stir The earth that lightly covers her.
Robert Herrick— Robert Herrick, Upon a Child that Dyed; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 231.
'Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world; to see the stir Of the Great Babel, and not feel the crowd.
william cowper— William Cowper, The Task (1785), Book IV, line 88.
And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep.
Henry Vaughan— Henry Vaughan, They are all gone into the World of Light, Stanza 7; Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 787-90.
I quite fixedly believe the Wardens of Earth sometimes unbar strange windows, that face on other worlds than ours. And some of us, I think, once in a while get a peep through these windows. But we are not permitted to get a long peep, or an unobstructed peep, nor very certainly, are we permitted to see all there is out yonder.
— James Branch Cabell, in The Cream of the Jest : A Comedy of Evasions (1917), Ch 28 : The Shallowest Sort of Mysticism
Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.
thomas gray— 1751Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.98-100.
