"Unblown" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... her wooing hour has passed, The singing birds have flown, And winter comes with icy blast To chill thy buds unblown. ...
— Over the Teacups • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... Under his tongue, yet shall the veil be rent. God's fearful judgments shall make evident What he hath done in darkness. Vipers' tongues And the dire poison of the asp, shall be His recompense. Terrors shall strike him through, An inward fire of sharp remorse, unblown By mortal hand, shall on his vitals feed, And all his strength consume. His wealth shall fleet, And they who trusted to become his heirs Embrace a shadow, for his goods shall flow Away, as the false brook forsakes ...
— Man of Uz, and Other Poems • Lydia Howard Sigourney
... as slender as the clove! You are an unblown rose! I have long loved you, and ...
— Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e • Lady Mary Wortley Montague
... parts and ornaments of the instrument, they conceived that it was a living animal, which sung in different voices. Observing their simplicity, I told them it was a musical instrument, and put it into their hand unblown to examine. They then perceived that it was a work of art, but believed that it was something supernatural, and could only have been devised by a superior being, it sounded so sweetly, and in so many different tones, having never heard any thing which could be compared to it in their ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. II • Robert Kerr
... where are they? "Vraiment," as B. Constant says, "je ne vois pas qu'en fait d'enthousiasme, le feu soit a la maison." Where are they—these disciples of poetry and romance, these victims of disinterested devotion and believing truth, these unblown roses—all conscience and tenderness—whom it is so necessary to guard against too much confidence in others, and too ...
— Characteristics of Women - Moral, Poetical, and Historical • Anna Jameson |
