"Past times" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... lived by whom I had been plundered. Then, indeed, did I experience intervals that approached madness, despair, and horror: beholding myself destitute of friend or protector, the Empress herself, for whose sake I suffered, deserting me; reflecting on past times and past prosperity; remembering how the good and virtuous, from the cruel nature of my punishment, must be obliged to conclude me a wretch and a villain, and that all means of justification were cut off: O God! How did my heart beat! with ...
— The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck - Vol. 2 (of 2) • Baron Trenck
... an evocation of past times was in this name! And their talk passed into a number of ...
— Sister Teresa • George Moore
... Member of the Society, over-rating his own Part of the Conversation, but equally receiving and contributing to the Pleasure of the whole Company. When one considers such Collections of Companions in past Times, and such as one might name in the present Age, with how much Spleen must a Man needs reflect upon the aukward Gayety of those who affect the Frolick with an ill Grace? I have a Letter from a Correspondent of mine, who desires me to admonish all loud, mischievous, airy, ...
— The Spectator, Volume 2. • Addison and Steele
... vulture—the inexhaustible repast Drawn from his vitals? Say what meant the woes By Tantalus entail'd upon his race, And the dark sorrows of the line of Thebes? Fictions in form, but in their substance truths— Tremendous truths!—familiar to the men Of long past times; nor obsolete ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 • Various
... sort o' thing," said a beardless young fellow, as a number of the men sat on camp-stools, or stood on the weather-side of the deck, chatting together about past times and future prospects. ...
— Blue Lights - Hot Work in the Soudan • R.M. Ballantyne
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