"Unattained" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... starting at the supernatural finger in the banqueting-hall. Yet then he was the creature of excitement, who pursued an end which was as indefinite as it seemed to be splendid. All had now happened that could happen. He drooped. He required the impulse which we derive from an object unattained. ...
— The Young Duke • Benjamin Disraeli
... whose transcendent mathematical abilities enabled him to give the theory a generality unattained by Young. He seized it in its entirety; followed the ether into the hearts of crystals of the most complicated structure, and into bodies subjected to strain and pressure. He showed that the facts discovered ...
— Six Lectures on Light - Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 • John Tyndall
... Themselves content If they but compass what they meant; Others prefer, their Purpose gained, Still to find Something unattained— Something whereto they vaguely grope With no more Aid than that of Hope. Which are the Wiser? Who shall say! The prudent Follower of GAY Declines to speak for either View, But sets ...
— Collected Poems - In Two Volumes, Vol. II • Austin Dobson |
