"Mildness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Dreams enfold me bright Of your eyes' persuasive mildness. Many a silent word From their corners heard,— Breaking forth with ...
— Poems and Songs • Bjornstjerne Bjornson
... loveliness must sleep, E'en when inspir'd and led by truth; The faithful pencil aims to keep Mildness and innocence and youth. ...
— Vignettes in Verse • Matilda Betham
... Further, the fruits correspond to the beatitudes and gifts, as stated above (I-II, Q. 70, A. 2). Now among the fruits, goodness and benignity seem to agree with piety rather than mildness, which pertains to meekness. Therefore the second beatitude does not correspond to the ...
— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas
... regarded as his enemy, Troubert again threatened the baron's future career, and put in jeopardy the peerage of his uncle. He made in the salon of the archbishop, and before an assembled party, one of those priestly speeches which are big with vengeance and soft with honied mildness. The Baron de Listomere went the next day to see this implacable enemy, who must have imposed sundry hard conditions on him, for the baron's subsequent conduct showed the most entire submission to the will of ...
— The Vicar of Tours • Honore de Balzac
... fellow so much beneath me; and at others equally angry, for not shewing him the respect which he claims. There are moments in which I have even feared him as a rival; for when she speaks to him, which she is very ready to do, the usual mildness and benevolence of her voice and features are evidently increased. She must, she shall be more circumspect. Indeed I have made her so within these ...
— Anna St. Ives • Thomas Holcroft
|
