"Downfallen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the bright crown Which when I last from heaven came down Was left behind me in yon star That shines from out those clouds afar— Where, relic sad, 'tis treasured yet, The downfallen angel's coronet!— Of all my glories, this alone Was wanting:—but the illumined brow, The sun-bright locks, the eyes that now Had love's spell added to their own, And poured a light till then unknown;— The unfolded wings that in their play Shed sparkles bright as ALLA'S ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al
... a candle, he took a hasty survey of the apartment. Seeing nothing that could incur his menaced resentment, he replaced the light and continued:—"Well, suppose the Belle Louise de Querouaille[*] shoots from her high station in the firmament, how will you rear up the downfallen Plot again—for without that same Plot, think of it as thou wilt, we have no change of hands—and matters remain as they were, with a Protestant courtezan instead of a Papist—Little Anthony can but little speed without ...
— Peveril of the Peak • Sir Walter Scott
... Caleb looked downfallen. "It seems that the days are hard for us Jews," he said. "Well, I will be content and strive to ...
— Pearl-Maiden • H. Rider Haggard
... now; do thou that, and ask no man's counsel, but thy own only, and God's. Brother, thou hast possibility in thee for much: the possibility of writing on the eternal skies the record of a heroic life. That noble downfallen or yet unborn 'Impossibility,' thou canst lift it up, thou canst, by thy soul's travail, bring it into clear being. That loud inane Actuality, with millions in its pocket, too 'possible' that, which rolls along there, with quilted trumpeters blaring round it, and all the world escorting ...
— Past and Present - Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. • Thomas Carlyle |
