"Spright" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... morning when ye rise, Wash your hands and cleanse your eyes, Next be sure to have a care To disperse the water farre, For as farre as that doth light, So farre keeps the evil spright. ...
— The Mysteries of All Nations • James Grant
... delightsomer sight! When she ended, her verse by her smiling was gilt: * Then the second 'gan singing as nightingale might:— Naught came to salute me in sleep save his shade * But 'welcome, fair welcome,' I cried to the spright! But the third I preferred for she said in reply, * With expression most apposite, exquisite:— My soul and my folk I engage for the youth * Musk- scented I see in my bed every night! So when I considered their words to ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 7 • Richard F. Burton
... their dreams, because their thoughts are clear, Their memory cheering: but th' earth-stained spright, Whose wakeful musings are of guilt and fear, Must hover nearer ...
— The Christian Year • Rev. John Keble
... in my mind But nought so great as love I find: Deep-searching wit, mount-moving might, Are nought compar'd to that great spright. Life of Delight and soul of blisse! Sure source of lasting happinesse! Higher than Heaven! lower than hell! What is thy tent? Where maist thou dwell? My mansion highs humilitie, Heaven's vastest capabilitie The further it doth downward tend The higher up it doth ...
— Bygone Beliefs • H. Stanley Redgrove
... vowel is also cut off in the middle, that the number of the syllables may be lessened; as amita, aunt; spiritus, spright; debitum, debt; dubito, doubt; comes, comitis, count; clericus, clerk; quietus, quit, quite; acquieto, to acquit; separo, to spare; stabilis, stable; stabulum, stable; pallacium, palace, place; rabula, rail, rawl, wrawl, ...
— A Grammar of the English Tongue • Samuel Johnson
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