"Lift up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Great Britain. If any idea of renouncing allegiance has existed, it was but a momentary frenzy. In a good cause, the force of this country can crush America to atoms. But on this ground of the stamp act, I am one who will lift up my hands against it. I rejoice that America has resisted. In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would embrace the pillar of the state, and pull down ...
— The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 • Julian Hawthorne
... "Thou knowest nothing. Such a guileless soul,— So wisely foolish, and so foolish wise,— A very child in heart, yet strangely strong, Ne'er have I found, except in Kundry here.... Come, brother-knights, lift up the stricken swan And bear it on these branches to the lake; Nor speak of this sad sorrow to the King To further grieve his deep-afflicted heart Stricken the King and wounded to his death, This omen he may dwell on ...
— Parsifal - A Drama by Wagner • Retold by Oliver Huckel
... writing to the fathers at Rome, confesses himself, that he wanted words to tell it. He adds, "That the multitude of those who had received baptism, was so vast, that, with the labour of continual christenings, he was not able to lift up his arms; and that his voice often failed him, in saying so many times over and over, the apostles' creed, and the ten commandments, with a short instruction, which he always made concerning the duties of a true Christian, ...
— The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVI. (of 18) - The Life of St. Francis Xavier • John Dryden
... moral necessity of human actions is always, I observe, fortified by supposing universal prescience to be one of the attributes of the Deity.' JOHNSON. 'You are surer that you are free, than you are of prescience; you are surer that you can lift up your finger or not as you please, than you are of any conclusion from a deduction of reasoning. But let us consider a little the objection from prescience. It is certain I am either to go home to-night ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 3 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
... time for prayer? With the first beams that light the morning's sky, Ere for the toils of day thou dost prepare, Lift up thy thoughts on high; Commend the loved ones to his watchful care: Morn is the ...
— The World's Best Poetry Volume IV. • Bliss Carman
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