"Blest" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... vigil, faint and reeling, Find at last my comfort, and are blest, Not with rapturous light of life's revealing ...
— A Century of Roundels • Algernon Charles Swinburne
... "Ah, who would be where rough men jostle In dust and grime, like porkers at a trough. When, here is May and May-time's blest apostle——" Just then, without preliminary cough, Suddenly, ere I knew, the actual throstle, Tee'd up and ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, May 27, 1914 • Various
... blaze, With anxious steps round vacant splendor while, Live on a look, and banquet on a smile; But the firm race whose high endowments claim The laurel-wreath that decks the brow of fame; Who warmed by sympathy's electric glow, In rapture tremble, and dissolve in woe, Blest in retirement, scorn the frowns of fate, And feel a ...
— The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II • Various
... good. She has some natural genius, and is as unconscious of her genius as she is of the good she does. In her unconsciousness is the fountain of her charm. She lives like a flower of the field that knows not it has blest and comforted with its beauty the travellers who have passed it by. She has only one day in the whole year for her own, and for that day she creates a fresh personality for herself. She clothes her soul, intellect, ...
— The Poetry Of Robert Browning • Stopford A. Brooke
... highly-blest maids, Cecily, Agatha, Anastasia, Barbara, Agnes, Lucy, Dorothy, Catherine, who held fast against the violent assault of men and devils the virginity they had resolved upon. Ours was Helen, celebrated for the finding of the Lord's Cross. ...
— Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name • Edmund Campion
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