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He thought what a pity it was that all his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened that really deserved a face, 14 he'd none to celebrate it with. As a kind of token, he made his Sex Life in Ancient Rome face.
Sir Kingsley Amis— Lucky Jim, ch. 25 (1953)
No cord norcable cansoforciblydraw, orhold sofast, as love can do with a twined thread.The scorching beams under the equinoctial or extremity of cold within the circle Arctic, where the very seas are frozen, cold or torrid zonecannot avoid orexpel thisheat, fury, and rage of mortal men.
— 1621Anatomy of Melancholy, pt.3, section 2, member1, subsection 2.
Dancing is a frenzyand a rage.
Sir John Davies— 1596 Orchestra, or a Poem of Dancing, stanza16.
O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.
Sir John Denham— 1642 Of the Thames. Cooper's Hill, l.189-92.
Some weigh their pleasure by their lust, Their wisdom by their rage of will, Their treasure is their only trust; And cloake' d craft their store of skill. But all the pleasure that I find Is to maintain a quiet mind.
Sir Edward Dyer— 1588 'In Praise of a Contented Mind'.
The monsters act out our rage. They act on their worst impulses, which is appealing to a certain part of us. They get punished for it, but we've enjoyed the spectacle of their liberation.
clive barker— The Advocate (Feb. 21, 1995)
With people's revolutionary rage, the king will be ousted and a democratic state, Islamic Republic, will be established.
ruhollah khomeini— "Imam's Sahife" vol. 4 p. 244 (1 November 1978).
What rage for fame attends both great and small!Better be damned than mentioned not at all.
john wolcot— To the Royal Academicians; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be d—n'd than mentioned not at all.
— John Wolcot (Peter Pindar), To the Royal Academicians. Lyric Odes for the Year 1783. Ode IX.
When hosts of foes with foes engage, And round th' anointed hero rage, The cleaving fauchion I misguide, And turn the feather'd shaft aside.
joseph addison— Second Angel, in Rosamond (c. 1707), Act III, sc. i.
Timotheus, to his breathing flute, And sounding lyre, Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.
john dryden— l. 158-159. (Alexander’s Feast (1697))
You could not tell, and yet it looked as if The shore was lucky in being backed by cliff, The cliff in being backed by continent; It looked as if a night of dark intent Was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage. There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.
robert frost— "Once by the Pacific" (1928)
Kaisers and Czars will strut the stage Once more with pomp and greed and rage; Courtly ministers will stop At home and fight to the last drop; By the million men will die In some new horrible agony...
robert graves— "The Next War"
The daimonic is any natural function which has the power to take over the whole person. Sex and eros, anger and rage, and the craving for power are examples. The daimonic can be either creative or destructive and is normally both.
rollo may— p. 123 (Love and Will (1969))
Power is required for communication. To stand before an indifferent or hostile group and have one's say, or to speak honestly to a friend truths that go deep and hurt these require self-affirmation, self-assertion, and even at times aggression. ... My experience in psychotherapy convinces me that the act which requires the most courage is the simple communication, unpropelled by rage or anger, of one's deepest thoughts to another.
rollo may— Ch. 12 : Toward New Community
There is no sport in hate where all the rage Is on one side.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— Lines to a Reviewer, l. 3 (1821).
Our missionaries are going forth to different nations, and in Germany, Palestine, New Holland, the East Indies, and other places, the standard of truth has been erected: no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing, persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished and the great Jehovah shall say the work is done.
smith, joseph, jr.— History of the Church 4:540; The Personal Writings of Joseph Smith, p.218-219
The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island. In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas.
john millington synge— Pt. I (The Aran Islands (1907))
A man not perfect, but of heart So high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part Of earth's eternal heritage.
— R. W. Gilder, At the President's Grave, epitaph for President Garfield (September 19, 1881).
The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority , advantage, or privilege . These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened.
— Wyndham Lewis, in Wyndham Lewis: Radical for the Permanent Things
The Countess of Egmont sits with Madame while the Princess of Orange is kept standing, the Prince is dying of rage.
— An observer on Williams troubles, 1565-William the Silent by C.V. Wegdwood, pg 70
Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd. Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
william congreve— William Congreve, The Mourning Bride.
Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
— Jonathan Swift, letter to Bolingbroke, March 21, 1729.
But in the glances of his eye, A penetrating, keen, and sly Expression found its home; The flash of that satiric rage, Which, bursting on the early stage, Branded the vices of the age, And broke the keys of Rome. :;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;*:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;*:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;* Still is thy name in high account, And still thy verse has charms, Sir David Lindesay of the Mount, Lord Lion King-at-arms!
— Sir Walter Scott Marmion (1808) Canto 4, st. 7.
Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, Expels diseases, softens every pain, Subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.
— Book IV, line 512.
Demosthenes told Phocion, "The Athenians will kill you some day when they once are in a rage." "And you," said he, "if they are once in their senses."
— Life of Phocion.
Those dying here, the lonely Forgotten by the world, Our tongue becomes for them The language of an ancient planet. Until, when all is legend And many years have passed, On a great Campo di Fiori rage will kindle at a poet's word.
czesław miłosz— "Campo dei Fiori" (1943), trans. Louis Iribarne and David Brooks
The chimps are infected! In order to cure, you must first understand - they're infected with rage!
— Alex Garland in lines written for 28 Days Later (film) (2002).
