"Dolor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... might have been, Richard of England met his death like a Christian man. Peace be to the soul of the brave! When the news came to King Philip of France, he sternly forbade his courtiers to rejoice at the death of his enemy. "It is no matter of joy but of dolor," he said, "that the bulwark of Christendom and the bravest king of Europe is ...
— Burlesques • William Makepeace Thackeray
... equal or more than equal to Mina's own; she even told Mina things about him; she said "we" thought him an enormous acquisition, and hoped to see a great deal of him. It was all very kind, and Mina, as a true friend, should have been delighted. As it was, dolor grew ...
— Tristram of Blent - An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House • Anthony Hope
... laudibus amplis Ingenium celebrare meum, calamumque solebat, Calcar agens animo validum. Non omnia terra Obruta; vivit amor, vivit dolor; ora negatur Dulcia conspicere; at fiere et meminisse ...
— Biographia Literaria • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
... eterna, a cui si volve Ogni creata cosa, In te, morte, si posa Nostra ignuda natura; Lieta no, ma sicura Dell' antico dolor . . . Pero ch' esser beato Nega ai mortali e nega a' ...
— The City of Dreadful Night • James Thomson
... Joyce's Country, since it haunts one like a dream That comes in the dusk ere dawning, ere the first bright sunrise beam; A dream of dolor and vastness, of clouds that are swept and swirled O'er the desolate wastes and waters of ...
— Sprays of Shamrock • Clinton Scollard
... oddly. "And in case you still live, monsieur," he corrected. "You show much solicitude that I meet my end decorously, yet I cannot see that you display any dolor over your own condition. Why should I have less fortitude? You are like a man who cares not for religion for himself, yet insists upon it for children and for his womenkind,—for his inferiors in general. Why should you feel that I need so much prompting?" His voice suddenly hardened. "Tell me. ...
— Montlivet • Alice Prescott Smith
... songs to cheer us up during that night of dolor, filling the intervals between the ditties with anathemas against his South African luck and realistic stories of his Australian experiences. He had lived, he told us, for several years by earning pennies ...
— Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer • W. C. Scully
... ester," li quens Guillaumes dit; "Tout avenra ce que doit avenir; Li mort as mors, li vif voissent as vis; Duel sor dolor et joie sor jor Ja nus frans hons nel devroit maintenir." Les cors enportent, les out en ...
— Epic and Romance - Essays on Medieval Literature • W. P. Ker
... afflicted intelligencer was cald coram nobis, how he spedde, iudge you, but something hee was adiudged to. The sparowe for his lecherie liueth but a yeere, he for his trecherie was turnd on the toe, Plura dolor prohibet. ...
— The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton - With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse • Thomas Nash
... enduring great pain of the colick, besides a continual fever, with as much patience as hath been seen in any man, without any pretence of stoical apathy, animosity, or vanity of not being concerned thereat, or suffering no impeachment of happiness: 'Nihil agis, dolor.' ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 6 - Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons • Samuel Johnson
... revele mas que un suspiro; ideas locas que cruzan por nuestra imaginacion, sin que ose formularlas el labio, fenomenos incomprensibles de nuestra naturaleza misteriosa, que el hombre no puede ni aun concebir. Te lo ruego, no me preguntes la causa de mi dolor; si te la revelase, acaso te ...
— Legends, Tales and Poems • Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
... have a mind to go. Vino con dolor de cabeza: He came with a headache. Le dio cuenta de lo sucedido: He gave him an account of all that had happened. Este caballero tiene mucho or grande ingenio: This gentleman has ...
— Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) • C. A. Toledano
... the prettiest touches of all, was, when at the relation of the queen's death, with the manner how she came by it, how attentiveness wounded her daughter: till from one sign of dolor to another, she did, with an alas! I ...
— Characteristics of Women - Moral, Poetical, and Historical • Anna Jameson
... this unhappy coast have gone to pieces, and rotted and sunk away in a few years, these two haunted hulks have neither sunk in the quicksand, nor has a single spar or board been displaced. Maritime legend says that two ships of Denmark having had permission, for a time, to work deeds of darkness and dolor on the deep, were at last condemned to the whirlpool and the sunken rock, and were wrecked in this bonnie bay, as a sign to seamen to be gentle and devout. The night when they were lost was a harvest evening of uncommon mildness and beauty: ...
— Folk-Lore and Legends - Scotland • Anonymous |
