"Disunite" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a desperate part, Why should you teize one for what secret cause One doats on Horace, or on Hudibras? 'Tis cruel, Sir, 'tis needless, to endeavour To teach a sot of Taste he knows no flavour, 90 To disunite I neither wish nor hope A stubborn blockhead from his fav'rite fop. Yes—fop I say, were Maro's self before 'em: For Maro's self grows dull as ...
— Essays on Taste • John Gilbert Cooper, John Armstrong, Ralph Cohen
... now removed from the machinations of Le Guast, who likewise failed in accomplishing a design he had long projected,—to disunite the King my ...
— Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Complete • Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre
... You cannot bind me more to you, my lord. Farewell till we renew... I trust, renew A converse ne'er to disunite again. ...
— A Blot In The 'Scutcheon • Robert Browning
... great change which was made in the persons who composed the Ministry, and the still greater which was made and avowed in its constitution. As to individuals, other methods were employed with them, in order so thoroughly to disunite every party, and even every family, that no concert, order, or effect, might appear in any future opposition. And in this manner an Administration without connection with the people, or with one another, was ...
— Thoughts on the Present Discontents - and Speeches • Edmund Burke
... no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe each other. When speech is employed only as the vehicle of falsehood, every man must disunite himself from others, inhabit his own cave, and seek ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes - Volume IV: The Adventurer; The Idler • Samuel Johnson |
