"Meseems" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Duban, "the return I meet from thee? Thou givest me, meseems, but crocodile boon." Quoth the King,"What is the tale of the crocodile?", and quoth the physician, "Impossible for me to tell it in this my state; Allah upon thee, spare me, as thou hopest Allah shall spare thee." And he wept with ex ceeding weeping. Then one of the King's favourites ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton
... and I, Under the soft keen stardawn whence the sky Takes life renewed, and all night's godlike breast Palpitates, gradually revealed at rest By growth and change of ardours felt on high, Make onward, till the last flame fall and die And all the world by night's broad hand lie blest. Haply, meseems, as from that edge of death, Whereon the day lies dark, a brightening breath Blows more of benediction than the morn, So from the graves whereon grief gazing saith That half our heart of life there lies forlorn May light or breath at least of ...
— Sonnets, and Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650) • Algernon Charles Swinburne
... How shall I stop my tears That life was once so low and Love arrived so late!' 'Sadness is beauty's savour, and pain is The exceedingly keen edge of bliss; Nor, without swift mutation, would the heav'ns be aught.' 'How to behave with him I'd fain be taught. A maid, meseems, within a God's embrace, Should bear her like a Goddess, or, at least, a Grace.' 'When Gods, to Man or Maid below, As men or birds appear, A kind 'tis of incognito, And that, not them, is what ...
— The Unknown Eros • Coventry Patmore
... I say, You love the queen, and loving burns you up, And mars the grace and joyous wit you had, Turning your speech to sad, your face to strange, Your mirth to nothing: and I am piteous, I, Even as the queen is, and such women are; And if I helped you to your love-longing, Meseems some grain of love might fall my way And love's god help me when I came to love; I have read tales of men that won their loves On some ...
— Chastelard, a Tragedy • Algernon Charles Swinburne
... from above: Breathe on the pipe a strain of fire; Or if a graver note thou love, With Phoebus' cittern and his lyre. You hear her? or is this the play Of fond illusion? Hark! meseems Through gardens of the good I stray, 'Mid murmuring gales and purling streams. Me, as I lay on Vultur's steep, A truant past Apulia's bound, O'ertired, poor child, with play and sleep, With living green the stock-doves crown'd— ...
— Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace • Horace
... As daring not too rashly mount on height; And doth her tender plumes as yet but try In love's soft lays, and looser thoughts delight. Then rouse thy feathers quickly, DANIEL, And to what course thou please thyself advance; But most, meseems, thy accent will excel In ...
— Adventures in Criticism • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... keep this up all day, This lyric, elegiac, song, Meseems hath come the time to say Farewell! Adieu! ...
— Tobogganing On Parnassus • Franklin P. Adams
... do! Look, Truelove, how brave and red are those holly berries, and how green and fantastically twisted the leaves! The sky is a bright blue, and the clouds are silver; and think what these woods will be when the winter is past! One might do worse, meseems, than to be of ...
— Audrey • Mary Johnston
... comrades, one and all, Cry loud, Aeneas to recall, And where, they say, the men to go And let him of our peril know? Now if the meed I ask they swear To give you—nay, I claim no share, Content with bare renown— Meseems, beside yon grassy heap The way I well might find and keep, To Pallanteum's town." The youth returns, while thirst of praise Infects him with a strange amaze: "Can Nisus aim at heights so great, Nor take his friend to share his fate? Shall I look on, and let you go Alone to venture 'mid the ...
— National Epics • Kate Milner Rabb
... accredited, putative; unsuspected. worthy of, deserving of, commanding belief; credible, reliable, trustworthy, to be depended on; satisfactory; probably &c 472; fiducial^, fiduciary; persuasive, impressive. relating to belief, doctrinal. Adv. in the opinion of, in the eyes of; me judice [Lat.]; meseems^, methinks; to the best of one's belief; I dare say, I doubt not, I have no doubt, I am sure; sure enough &c (certainty) 474; depend upon, rely upon it; be assured, rest assured; I'll warrant you &c (affirmation) 535. Phr. experto crede [Lat.] [Vergil]; fata viam invenient ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... me, O auspicious King, that when Khalifah the Fisherman lay down upon the chest and thus tarried awhile, behold, something stirred beneath him; whereat he was affrighted and his reason fled. So he arose and cried, "Meseems there be Jinns in the chest. Praise to Allah who suffered me not to open it! For, had I done so, they had risen against me in the dark and slain me, and from them would have befallen me naught of good." Then he lay down again when, lo! The chest moved a second ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 8 • Richard F. Burton
... But, if you can overlook your lover's grey hairs, perhaps you may be induced to weigh the words he now utters. Of the faith and devotion of my soul I will say nothing. No man of my years woos a woman, unless his heart's strong impulse urges him on. But there is something else which, meseems, is of equal import. I said that I would lead you to my house. Yonder it stands, a building firm and spacious enough; but from to-morrow a tent will be our home, the camp our dwelling-place, and there will be wild work enough within its bounds. No one is secure, not even of life, ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers |
