"Fondness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... than I had before, and although seriously embarrassed for want of an instructor, I realized some pleasure and profit in my studies. I often employed myself in drawing rude maps of the solar system, and diagrams illustrating the theory of solar eclipses. I felt also a fondness for reading the Bible, and committing chapters, and verses of hymns to memory. Often on the Sabbath when alone in the barn, I would break the monotony of the hours by endeavouring to speak, as if I was addressing an audience. My mind was ...
— The Fugitive Blacksmith - or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington • James W. C. Pennington
... seest what I am, I think thou wilt forgive him, whom his God Can ne'er forgive, nor his own soul.—Farewell! I must not, dare not touch what I have made thee. I, who sprung from the same womb with thee, drained The same breast, clasped thee often to my own, In fondness brotherly and boyish, I Can never meet thee more, nor even dare To do that for thee, which thou shouldst have done For me—compose thy limbs into their grave— 540 The first grave yet dug for mortality. But who hath dug that grave? Oh, earth! Oh, earth! For all the fruits thou ...
— The Works of Lord Byron - Poetry, Volume V. • Lord Byron
... Premier, Clemenceau, is an example of this fondness of the French for government by old men. Clemenceau is seventy-six years old, ...
— Face to Face with Kaiserism • James W. Gerard
... not regular that, when he was lord, another should remain in his land against his will, and [the Governor] said many other words to him upon this subject in the presence of all in order that they might see the favor which he did him [Manco] and the fondness which he showed him, and this not for the sake of advantages that might result from it, but for his own [Manco's] sake.[73] The cacique had great pleasure in receiving this order, and in the space of four days he assembled more than five thousand Indians, all in readiness with their arms, and the ...
— An Account of the Conquest of Peru • Pedro Sancho
... antiquities; remarkable imitations in wax of human anatomy; Ponte Vecchio; street paving; thickness of walls of houses; Palazzo Pitti; Canova's Venus; Boboli Gardens; Cascino; beauty of the women; Pegasus; Italian fondness for gaudy colours; Canova's monument to Alfieri; Church of Santa Croce; the Florentine Westminster Abbey; academies; La Crusca; English travellers; Lord Dillon; story illustrating Florentine life. Fouche: complains ...
— After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 • Major W. E Frye
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