"Self-devoted" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... speaks, Eleusis quakes thro all her mystic caves, And black Trophonius gapes a thousand graves. But soon the freeborn Greeks to vengeance rise, Brave Sparta springs where first the danger lies, Her self-devoted Band, in one steel'd mass, Plunge in the gorge of death, and choke the Pass, Athenian youths, the unwieldy war to meet, Couch the stiff lance, or mount the well arm'd fleet; They sweep the incumber'd seas of their vast ...
— The Columbiad • Joel Barlow
... of this nature aside for the moment, my younger readers need only hold the broad fact that during the whole of the fourth century, multitudes of self-devoted men led lives of extreme misery and poverty in the effort to obtain some closer knowledge of the Being and Will of God. We know, in any available clearness, neither what they suffered, nor what they learned. We cannot estimate ...
— Our Fathers Have Told Us - Part I. The Bible of Amiens • John Ruskin
... revolutions. From his youth upwards he had followed the glorious profession of Patriot. Wherever the people of the Southern New World rose and declared their independence—and, in my time, that fervent population did nothing else—there was the Doctor self-devoted on the altar of his adopted country. He had been fifteen times exiled, and condemned to death in his absence, when I met with him in Paris—the picture of heroic poverty, with a brown complexion and one lame leg. Who could avoid falling in love with such a man? ...
— Poor Miss Finch • Wilkie Collins
... her favorite author. And it happened that, while the gallantry of the loyal champions of Charles I. was fresh in her memory, a casual conversation threw in her way an opportunity of doing honor to the self-devoted heroism of a French soldier whom the proudest of the British cavaliers might have welcomed as a brother, but whose valiant and self-sacrificing fidelity had been left unnoticed by the worthless sovereign in whose service he had perished, and by his ministers, who thought only of ...
— The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France • Charles Duke Yonge |
