"Afric" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... O, never!—Sooner would I roam An unknown exile through the torrid climes Of Afric—sooner dwell with wolves and tigers, Than mount with ...
— The Universal Reciter - 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems • Various
... coal-black Angel With a thick Afric lip, And he dwells (like the hunted and harried) In a swamp where the green frogs dip. But his face is against a City Which is over a bay of the sea, And he breathes with a breath that is blastment, And dooms by a ...
— Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War • Herman Melville
... swart chief of Afric's vergeless plains, Poor Heaven-wept child of nature's joys and pains, Mounts his fleet steed with wind-directed course, Nor checks again his free unbridled horse, But lordless, wanders where his will inclines From Tuats heats to Zegzeg's stunted pines! View him, ye craven ...
— Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854) • Various
... bull on Afric's strand, And crops with dancing head the daisy'd land; With rosy wreathes Europa's hand adorns His fringed forehead and his pearly horns; Light on his back the sportive damsel bounds, And, pleas'd, he moves along the flowery grounds; Bears with slow step his beauteous prize aloof, Dips ...
— Practical Education, Volume II • Maria Edgeworth
... on Afric's coast, Whose swarthy sons in blood delight, Who of their scorn to Europe boast, And paint their very demons white: There, while the sterner sex disdains To soothe the woes they cannot feel, Woman will strive to heal his pains, And weep for those she cannot heal: Hers is warm pity's ...
— Miscellaneous Poems • George Crabbe
... burning orb of day, When Afric's injured son expiring lay, His forehead cold, his labouring bosom bare, His dewy temples, and his sable hair, His poor companions kissed, and cried aloud, Rejoicing, whilst his head in peace he bowed:— Now thy long, long task is done, Swiftly, brother, wilt thou run, Ere to-morrow's ...
— The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 • William Lisle Bowles
... him the loveliest maiden, Afric's thousand hills can show; White apparel'd, flower-laden, With the ...
— Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse • Richard Doddridge Blackmore
... Afric, lion-haunted, where the giant forest yields Rarer robes and finer tissue than are sold ...
— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various
... what they please about the irresistible march of civilization, and clearing the way for Webster's Spelling-Book,—about pumps for Afric's sunny fountains, and Fulton ferry-boats for India's coral strand; but there's nothing in what the Atlantic Cable gives, like that it takes away from the heart of the man who has looked the Sphinx in the face and dreamed with the Brahmin under his own banian. ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 26, December, 1859 • Various
... Here from the far Antipodes, And from the subject Indian seas, In Congress meet; From Afric and from Hindustan, From Western continent and isle, The envoys of her empire pile Gifts at ...
— Ballads • William Makepeace Thackeray
... rival hues to make her fair all conquered regions vie, Afric its azure must bestow, and ...
— The Elegies of Tibullus • Tibullus
... Powers, To whom you have intrusted humankind! See Europe, Afric, Asia, put in balance, And all weighed down by one light, worthless woman! I think the gods are Antonies, and give, Like prodigals, this nether world away To ...
— All for Love • John Dryden
... mountains, From India's coral strands, Where Afric's sunny fountains, Roll down their golden sands; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land ...
— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller
... had once, as she was wont in Afric, brought to the Churches built in memory of the Saints, certain cakes, and bread and wine, and was forbidden by the door-keeper; so soon as she knew that the Bishop had forbidden this, she so piously and obediently embraced ...
— The Confessions of Saint Augustine • Saint Augustine
... Channing's disgust. One day Channing took up a theme and held it up and called out, X. X. came to the chair by the Professor's side, and the Professor read, in his shrill voice: "'The sable sons of Afric's burning coast.' You mean negroes, I suppose." He admitted that he did. The Professor took his pen and drew a line over the sentence he had read and substituted the word "negroes" above the ...
— Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 • George Hoar
... stain of manhood, slavery, flowed, Through Afric's sons transmitted in the blood; Hereditary slaves his kindness shar'd, For manumission by degrees prepared: Return'd from war, I saw them round him press And all their speechless ...
— George Washington: Farmer • Paul Leland Haworth
... Naiad knows Than from thy chalice flows; Not the bright spring of Afric's sunny shores, Starry with spangles washed from golden ores, Nor glassy stream Bandusia's fountain pours, Nor wave translucent where Sabrina fair Braids her loose-flowing hair, Nor the swift current, stainless as it rose Where chill Arveiron steals ...
— The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... stupendous work! God bless the Regent and the Duke of York! Ye Muses! by whose aid I cried down Fox, Grant me in Drury Lane a private box, Where I may loll, cry Bravo! and profess The boundless powers of England's glorious press; While Afric's sons exclaim, from shore to shore, "Quashee ma boo!"—the slave-trade is no more! In fair Arabia (happy once, now stony, Since ruined by that arch apostate Boney), A Phoenix late was caught: the Arab host Long ponder'd—part would boil it, ...
— Rejected Addresses: or, The New Theatrum Poetarum • James and Horace Smith
... Peace and Benevolent Society of Afric-Americans, held on the 7th inst., Mr Henry Berrian was called to the chair, and Mr Henry N. Merriman was appointed secretary. The following resolutions ...
— Thoughts on African Colonization • William Lloyd Garrison |
