"Imprest" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Was worthiest. The celestial love, that spurns All envying in its bounty, in itself With such effulgence blazeth, as sends forth All beauteous things eternal. What distils Immediate thence, no end of being knows; Bearing its seal immutably imprest. Whatever thence immediate falls, is free, Free wholly, uncontrollable by power Of each thing new: by such conformity More grateful to its author, whose bright beams, Though all partake their shining, ...
— The World's Best Poetry Volume IV. • Bliss Carman
... will never fade from the minds of men. The other, raised to the very summit of glory by force of arms like another David, dies like him in his bed, sounding the praises of God and leaving his dying behests to his family, while all hearts were imprest as much by the splendor of his life as by ...
— The World's Great Sermons, Vol. 2 (of 10) • Grenville Kleiser
... like the Golden Ore, Which hath Guineas intrinsical in't, Whose Worth is never known before It is try'd and imprest in the Mint. A Wife's like a Guinea in Gold, Stampt with the Name of her Spouse; Now here, now there; is bought, or is sold; And is current in ...
— The Beggar's Opera - to which is prefixed the Musick to each Song • John Gay
... bears That none its Maker's glory shares. Thy wisdom is made manifest In all things formed by Thy behest, All with Thy seal's clear mark imprest. ...
— Hebrew Literature
... treasury, were guilty of a notorious breach of trust and injustice to the nation, in allowing above thirty millions to remain unaccounted for; a purposed omission that looked like a design to conceal embezzlements. They begged her majesty would give immediate directions for compelling the several imprest accountants speedily to pass their accounts. They expressed their hope that such of the accountants as had neglected their duty in prosecuting their accounts, ought no longer to be intrusted with ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett |
