"Deathful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Life, and whatever goes to diminish the living quality of Life reproduces, in its degree, the distinctive quality of this supreme exhibition of the Negative. Everything that tends to detract from the fulness of life has in it this deathful quality. ...
— The Hidden Power - And Other Papers upon Mental Science • Thomas Troward
... of gods on high, Holds up the scales, and sets the long beam straight, And in the balance lays their fates, to try Each champion's fortune in the stern debate, Whom battle's toil shall doom, where sinks the deathful weight. ...
— The Aeneid of Virgil - Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor • Virgil
... spear, redoubtable in war, Reclined that banner, erst in fields unfurl'd, That like a deathful meteor gleam'd afar, And brav'd the mighty ...
— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns
... yourselves mean by "vulgarity"? You will find it a fruitful subject of thought; but, briefly, the essence of all vulgarity lies in want of sensation. Simple and innocent vulgarity is merely an untrained and undeveloped bluntness of body and mind; but in true inbred vulgarity, there is a deathful callousness, which, in extremity, becomes capable of every sort of bestial habit and crime, without fear, without pleasure, without horror, and without pity. It is in the blunt hand and the dead heart, ...
— Harvard Classics Volume 28 - Essays English and American • Various
... What deathful scream rends Romara's heart?— Is it the bittern that, flapping the air, Doth shriek in madness, and downward dart, As if from the bosom of Death she would tear Her perished brood,—or a shroud would have By their side, in ...
— The Baron's Yule Feast: A Christmas Rhyme • Thomas Cooper |
