"Temp" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... manners gentle, of affections mild; In wit a man; simplicity, a child; With native humour temp'ring virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age; Above temptation in a low estate, And uncorrupted e'en among the great: A safe companion, and an easy friend, Unblamed through life, lamented in the end. These are ...
— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray
... fidle amie Dont la main essuya tes yeux? Par qui la douleur endormie S'exhale en rve dans les cieux? Ne suis-je rien? Que la tempte Des passions s'apaise en toi! L'homme n'est plus; renais pote! Je t'aime, Hoffmann! appartiens-moi! Des cendres de ton coeur rchauffe ton gnie. Dans la srnit souris tes douleurs, La Muse adoucira ta souffrance bnie, On est grand ...
— The Tales of Hoffmann - Les contes d'Hoffmann • Book By Jules Barbier; Music By J. Offenbach
... al-Salat,"i.e., she pronounced the formula of Intention (Niyat) with out which prayer is not valid, ending with Allaho Akbar—Allah is All-great. Thus she had clothed herself, as it were, in prayer and had retired from the world pro temp. ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton
... Greisbrook was formerly of some note at Shenstone. He says that "Greisbrook, whence the family had their name, is a manor in Yorkshire, which, in the reign of Henry III., was in the great House of Mowbray, of whom the Greisbrooks held their lands. Roger de Greisbrook (temp. Henry II.) is mentioned as holding of the fee of Alice, Countess of Augie, or Ewe, daughter of William de Albiney, Earl of Arundel, by Queen Alice, relict of Henry I." Then follow some particulars ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 208, October 22, 1853 • Various
... irreverent Jake. "I own I wasn't at a temp'rance meetin' las' night, but I was in bed long before you ...
— The Tale of Timber Town • Alfred Grace |
