"Loathsomeness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... forth alone, So peerless in its radiant loveliness, Hath perished 'neath mortality's cold grasp, And yielded up the patent of its charm. Henceforth I can compete with Heaven, and fill My world with bright creations as its own, Unmarr'd by inner loathsomeness and sin, That rushing through its pulses like a blight Make beauty hideous. Thou, my soul, return, Sit on thy throne, and with creative might People thy kingdom with a beauteous race, Fair form'd, and nobly featured, ...
— Eidolon - The Course of a Soul and Other Poems • Walter R. Cassels
... and quieted his proud and stormy heart. But, all the time, it was his motives. The baseness of his motives even when he did what it was but his duty and his praise to do, that quite killed Earlston every day. The loathsomeness of a heart that hid such motives in its unguessed depths made him often weep in the woods which his grandfather had sanctified by his Bible readings a century before. Rutherford saw with the glance of genius what was going on in his ...
— Samuel Rutherford - and some of his correspondents • Alexander Whyte
... this immunity is regarded as possessed by all the nations of the world for ever more there is nothing particularly impressive in it; and so it failed to impress his contemporaries. It is only when we contrast the loathsomeness and danger of smallpox with the mildness and safety of vaccinia and varioloid that we grasp the greatness of the work which Jenner did for mankind. The very simplicity of vaccination detracts from its impressiveness unless its ...
— Popular Science Monthly Volume 86
... veins Steal like dark streams along a field of snow, 15 Whose outline is as fair as marble clothed In light of some sublimest mind, decay? Nor putrefaction's breath Leave aught of this pure spectacle But loathsomeness and ruin?— 20 Spare aught but a dark theme, On which the lightest heart might moralize? Or is it but that downy-winged slumbers Have charmed their nurse coy Silence near her lids To watch their own ...
— The Daemon of the World • Percy Bysshe Shelley
... so bright and fair In a land so glad and free; But the Search-Light layeth dark secrets bare, And shows how loathsomeness builds a lair In a land ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, September 5, 1891 • Various
... life! Here in a little cluster of grass huts in a secluded nook of a secluded island of an all but secluded archipelago was gathered together a little community of wretched natives, driven by their loathsomeness from association with others even of the same half-savage race. Yet here, men and women loved and were married, by mutual trust if not by law, and children were born of the union to live forever under the unspeakable horror that overshadowed the ...
— An Epoch in History • P. H. Eley |
