"Throughly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Before the glory of the inner shrine; O Love! the Quenchless! Pure! and Beautiful! Be to me as the Prophet's cruize of oil, That wasteth not, nor minisheth with use, To nourish me through this life's famine time, And strengthen me unto the poet's work; Fold my soul throughly in thy sweet embrace, In honour, or in sorrow, or in joy, Filling it with thy holy influence, As air is filled with sunshine at the noon, Till all thought feel its blessedness and peace. Thus would I furnish me for ...
— Eidolon - The Course of a Soul and Other Poems • Walter R. Cassels
... invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my means, Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends, But they shall find, awak'd in such a kind, Both strength of limb, and policy of mind, Ability in means, and choice of friends, To quit me of them throughly. ...
— Much Ado About Nothing • William Shakespeare [Knight edition]
... 'Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions: And my sin is ever before me. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned. Cast me ...
— The Idea of God in Early Religions • F. B. Jevons
... witherd, circled me, When unto her voice inured Like those who, by harmony, Only can be throughly cured. ...
— Lucasta • Richard Lovelace
... hauing written it in Latine, they caused vs to interprete vnto them eche sentence, to wit if we had erred in any word. And when both letters were written, they made vs to reade them ouer twise more, least we should haue mistaken ought. For they said vnto vs: Take heed that ye vnderstand all things throughly, for if you should not vnderstand the whole matter aright, it might breed some inconuenience. They wrote the said letters also in the Saracen tongue that there might be some found in our dominions which could reade and interprete ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries - Vol. II • Richard Hakluyt
... answer awhile he gave. But at last he spake: "O brother, on Greyfell shalt thou ride, And do on the Helm of Aweing and gird the Wrath to thy side, And cover thy breast with the war-coat that is throughly woven of gold, That hath not its like in the heavens nor has earth of its fellow told: For this is the raiment of Kings when they ride the Flickering Fire, And so sink the flames before them and the might of ...
— The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs • William Morris
... though they have always exercised their pens in taking off from the wit of others, have never pretended to challenge any themselves, and consequently are in no danger of being engaged in making claims, or of having any suits commence against them. Every writer shall be tried by his peers, throughly versed in that point wherein he pretends to excel; for which reason the jury can never consist of above half the ordinary number. I shall in general be very tender how I put any person out of his wits; but as the management of such possessions is of great consequence to the world, ...
— The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D. D., Volume IX; • Jonathan Swift
... "wash me throughly from mine iniquity." Yes, and that not like the washing of the hands, but like the washing of clothes, not like the washing of a surface, but the removal of uncleanness from a fabric, the ousting of every ...
— My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year • John Henry Jowett
... and practised by the late Benoit Constant Coquelin. To some extent it was the theory of Garrick and Fechter and Edwin Booth; though it was rejected by the two Keans, and by Edwin Forrest, who entered so throughly into the character which he assumed, and who let loose such tremendous bursts of passion that other actors dreaded to support him on the stage in such parts ...
— Famous Affinities of History, Vol 1-4, Complete - The Romance of Devotion • Lyndon Orr |
