"Morne" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had copied, and grouped and painted and framed them like the first. The Doctor left both for me at Miss Dudley's gate, with this inscription on the envelope: "A little offering of great gratitude, from a sister of Fanny Morne." I suppose, by the way, this is one source of the satisfaction that some real mourners find in wearing mourning, as they say, "for the dead,"—a vague longing, like mine, after they have passed beyond human care, to do or sacrifice ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 - A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics • Various
... who else would melt in teares. But liue, liue happy still, in safety liue, Who safety onely to my life can giue. Exit. Cor. O he is gon, go hie thee after him, My vow forbids, yet still my care is with thee, My cryes shall wake the siluer Moone by night, And with my teares I will salute the Morne. No day shall passe with out my dayly plaints, 460 No houre without my prayers for thy returne. My minde misgiues mee Pompey is betrayd. O AEgypt do not rob me of my loue. Why beareth Ptolomy so sterne a looke? O do not staine thy ...
— The Tragedy Of Caesar's Revenge • Anonymous
... the character of stone in formation. Inquiries instituted on Monday morning revealed the fact that, except on the south-east, the mud shower had not extended beyond the limits of the town. On the north-west, in the direction of Fond Colo and Morne Daniel, nothing but pure rain-water had fallen, and neither Loubiere nor Pointe Michel had seen any signs of ...
— The Antediluvian World • Ignatius Donnelly
... was the merie moneth of Februarie, When yong men, in their iollie roguerie, Rose earelie in the morne fore breake of daie, To seeke them valentines ...
— The Choise of Valentines - Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo • Thomas Nash
... where wilt thou be? Pandora. Not with old Saturne for he lookes like death; Nor yet with Jupiter, lest Juno storme; Nor with thee Mars, for Venus is thy love; Nor with thee Sol, thou hast two Parramours, The sea borne Thetis and the rudy morne; Nor with thee Venus, lest I be in love With blindfold Cupid or young Joculus; Nor with thee Hermes, thou art full of sleightes, And when I need thee Jove will send thee foorth. Say Cynthia, shall Pandora rule thy starre, And ...
— Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama - A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration - Stage in England • Walter W. Greg
... Good. Pass the bottle. (Un morne silence). Sir Christopher does not seem to have raised our spirits. Chromatic, favour us with a specimen of your vocal powers. ...
— Headlong Hall • Thomas Love Peacock
... great, but beare ye may, For not so great, as it was wont of yore, It's now a dayes, ne halfe so streight and sore. They whilome used duly everie day Their service and their holie things to say, At morne and even, besides their Anthemes sweete, Their penie Masses, and their Complynes meete, Their Diriges, their Trentals, and their shrifts, Their memories, their singings, and their gifts. Now all those needlesse works are laid away; Now once a weeke, ...
— Spenser - (English Men of Letters Series) • R. W. Church
... they were pylgryms of England, and hadde lost theyr fellyshyp and way also. Thenne thys olde man comforted theym goodly, and brought theym in to a fayre cytee; and whanne they had well refreshed theym, and rested there alle nyhte, on the morne, this fayre olde man went with theym, and brought theym in the ryght waye agayne. And he was gladde to here theym talke of the welfare and holynesse of theyr kynge Saynt Edward. And whan he shold depart fro theym, thenne ...
— Coronation Anecdotes • Giles Gossip |
