"Dark ages" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... beautiful to see their happiness. Sometimes they are tiresome. The bride is the chief offender. She quotes her Adolphus as the world-oracle, and dilates on her own recent domestic discoveries as if they were what civilised humanity had been waiting for through dark ages of perplexity. Her superior attitude towards unmarried friends not ...
— The Etiquette of Engagement and Marriage • G. R. M. Devereux
... the warfare against the devil, as it is well known that this spirit, which formerly had the temerity to contradict God himself face to face and to doubt His words, as is related in the holy book of Job, who carried our Lord Christ through the air as afterwards in the Dark Ages he carried the ghosts, and continues, according to report, to carry the asuang of the Philippines, now seems to have become so shamefaced that he cannot endure the sight of a piece of painted cloth and that he fears ...
— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal
... Catholic; I don't suppose they really believe what they are obliged to profess; but how an Englishman, a gentleman, a man here at Oxford, with all his advantages, can so eat dirt, scraping and picking up all the dead lies of the dark ages—it's ...
— Loss and Gain - The Story of a Convert • John Henry Newman
... gradual development of an awareness, a realization of the power of this world of minute things, has been the index of progress in the bodily well-being of the human race through the centuries marking the rebirth of medicine after the sleep of the Dark Ages. ...
— The Third Great Plague - A Discussion of Syphilis for Everyday People • John H. Stokes
... remained to intermarry and preserve the dying race. Other multitudes returned to their old home to sow the northern forests with those great ideas that were to carry civilization through the long night of the dark ages. ...
— The Investment of Influence - A Study of Social Sympathy and Service • Newell Dwight Hillis
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