Wondrous Quotes - 2
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When I survey the wondrous cross On which the prince
of glory died, My richest gain I
count but loss, And pour contempt
on all my pride.
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More Wondrous Quotes
Heureux, qui comme Ulysse, a fait un beau voyage, Ou comme cestuy la' qui conquit la toison, Et puis est retourne , plein d'usage et raison, Vivre entre ses parents le reste de son a" ge! Happy is he who, like Ulysses, has taken a wondrous journey Or has won the Golden Fleece, And then returns home wise and useful To live in his homeland the rest of his days.
Joachim du Bellay— 1558 Les Regrets, no.31.
This wondrous miracle did Love devise,
For dancing is love's proper exercise.
— Orchestra, or a Poem of Dancing, stanza 18 (1596)
When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.
Robert Burns— To Robert Graham, st. 1 (1791)
Here’s to the dayThat wondrous May,A-roaming through the heather,When her little shoesAnd my big bootsWere out on the hills together.And here’s to the nightOf our delight,That held the stars in tether,When her little shoesAnd my big bootsWere under the bed together.
bliss carman— The full toast, as reported in New York Sun. Quoted in John Coldwell Adams, Confederation Voices, 2007.
In politics and politicians' liesThe modern farmer waxes wondrous wise;
john clare— "The Parish: A Satire"
Will ye believeThe wonders of the ocean? how its shoalsSprang from the wave, like flashing light; .. took wing,And, twinkling with a silver glitterance,Flew through the air and sunshine? yet were theyTo sight less wondrous than the tribe who swam,Following like fowlers, with uplifted eye,Their falling quarry: .. language cannot paintTheir splendid tints! though in blue ocean seen,Blue, darkly, deeply, beautifully blue,In all its rich variety of shades,Suffus'd with glowing gold.
Robert Southey— Madoc in Wales, Part I, Sec. V - 48 (1805). Compare: "'Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue,' As some one somewhere sings about the sky", Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto iv. stanza 110.
How small a part of time they shareThat are so wondrous sweet and fair!
Edmund Waller— Go, Lovely Rose (1664), st. 2.
O day and night, but this is wondrous strange.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act I, scene 5, line 164.
'Twas strange, 'twas passing strange;'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act I, scene 3, line 160.
My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue An everlasting vision of the everchanging view A wondrous woven magic in bits of blue and gold A tapestry to feel and see, impossible to hold.
carole king— Tapestry (Tapestry (1971))
The universal nature has no external space; but the wondrous part of her art is that though she has circumscribed herself, everything which is within her which appears to decay and to grow old and to be useless she changes into herself, and again makes other new things from these very same, so that she requires neither substance from without nor wants a place into which she may cast that which decays. She is content then with her own space, and her own matter, and her own art.
marcus aurelius— VIII, 50. (Book VIII)
Beside the garden walls, We walk in haunts of ancient peace. At night we rest and go to sleep In haunts of ancient peace. The love and light we seek, The words we do not need to speak, Here in this wondrous way we keep These haunts of ancient peace.
van morrison— Haunts Of Ancient Peace
Sometimes, when the spirit moves me I can do many wondrous things I wanna know when the spirit moves you Did ye get healed?
van morrison— Did Ye Get Healed?
A tailor, though a man of upright dealing, True but for lying, honest but for stealing, Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on the sudden was in wondrous trance.
— Sir John Harrington, Of a Precise Tailor.
Not till I was shut up to prayer and to the study of God's word by the loss of earthly joys sickness destroying the flavor of them all did I begin to penetrate the mystery that is learned under the cross. And wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ, and to know that I love Him this is all.
elizabeth payson prentiss— p. 568. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers)
Roger Bacon had shown how easy it is, and how vain, to survey the operations of Nature and idly refer her wondrous works to chance or accident, or to the immediate interposition of God.
— D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, On Growth and Form (1917)
There is no paradise more wondrous for any soul than to be exposed to God’s Manifestation in His Day, to hear His verses and believe in them, to attain His presence, which is naught but the presence of God, to sail upon the sea of the heavenly kingdom of His good-pleasure, and to partake of the choice fruits of the paradise of His divine Oneness.
— Selections From the Writings of the Báb, p. 74-77
In Belmont is a lady richly left; And she is fair, and fairer than that word, Of wondrous virtues. Sometimes from her eyes I did receive fair speechless messages.
— Bassanio, scene i
Would it not be wondrous for this whole nation to be destroyed like a beautiful flower.
— General Anami, Japanese War Minister, at a meeting of Japan’s Supreme Council for the Direction of the War (August 9, 1945).[ ]
There is no paradise more wondrous for any soul than to be exposed to God’s Manifestation in His Day, to hear His verses and believe in them, to attain His presence, which is naught but the presence of God, to sail upon the sea of the heavenly kingdom of His good-pleasure, and to partake of the choice fruits of the paradise of His divine Oneness.
báb— II, 16 (The Persian Bayán)
Tarzan held a peculiar position in the tribe. They seemed to consider him one of them and yet in some way different. The older males either ignored him entirely or else hated him so vindictively that but for his wondrous agility and speed and the fierce protection of the huge Kala he would have been dispatched at an early age.
Edgar Rice Burroughs— Ch. 7 : The Light of Knowledge
Football ... is a ballet of wondrous beauty choreographed by highly skilled performers, dramatising the conflict between good and evil that takes place in every heart. And, at the same time it reflects the impatient immediacy of modern society in that success breeds immortality, while the procurement of second place begets anonymity.
damien richardson— City Edition, Vol. 22, Issue 12, p.5.
What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
Andrew Marvell— c.1650-1652 'The Garden' (published1681), stanza 5.
British Gazetters of the Raj era, those marvellously accurate records of the minutiae of Indian life, mention the presence of "thousands of rosewood inlay workers" in Mysore during the 19th Century. With their "wondrous and unparalleled" skills of inlaying finely etched ivory motifs on rosewood surfaces, they literally captured a panorama of India, its festivals, flora and fauna.
— Pushpa Chari, in [Intricate patterns] (Wood Inlay)
