"Wive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sleight, Who never is deceiv'd in her deceit. Sing (that is, write); and then take from mine eyes 75 The mists that hide the most inscrutable pander That ever lapt up an adulterous vomit, That I may see the devill, and survive To be a devill, and then learne to wive! That I may hang him, and then cut him downe, 80 Then cut him up, and with my soules beams search The cranks and cavernes of his braine, and study The errant wildernesse of a womans face, Where men cannot get out, for all the comets That ...
— Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois • George Chapman
... said he, "what gars[2] thy grief? heigh ho, what gars thy grief?" "A wound," quoth she, "without relief, I fear a maid that I shall die." "If that be all," the shepherd said, heigh ho, the shepherd said! "Ile make thee wive it gentle maid, ...
— Rosalynde - or, Euphues' Golden Legacy • Thomas Lodge
... bounds of thirty-five. High to soar, and deep to dive, Nature gives at thirty-five. Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five; For howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five; He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five; And all who wisely wish to wive Must look on ...
— Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) • Mrs. Hester Lynch Piozzi
... That's the mystery, The adumbration of poetic art, And there I leave it to perplex mankind. It has a moral, fathers should regard,— A black-haired dog breeds not a red-haired cur. Treasure this knowledge: you're about to wive; And no one ...
— Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini • George Henry Boker
... glorious giants, who Yet walk the world in pride, The Sons of Heaven by many a mortal bride. Thine shall be nothing of the past, save tears! And art thou not ashamed Thus to survive, And eat, and drink, and wive? With a base heart so far subdued and tamed, As even to hear this wide destruction named, Without such grief and courage, as should rather 140 Bid thee await the world-dissolving wave, Than seek a shelter with thy favoured father, And ...
— The Works of Lord Byron - Poetry, Volume V. • Lord Byron
... tho' with four Moslemahs I wive, "One-wife-men ye and (damned race!) you split your God ...
— The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi • Richard F. Burton |
