"Blessed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Virgin, mother mild; Sing, Joseph, father blessed; Sing, angels, shepherds, men so wise, For ...
— Jethou - or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles • E. R. Suffling
... races, where the Teutonic and Latin strains had each improved the other; and the pretty young girls and women seemed to him like flowers sprung from an old and rich soil. He found his pleasure in watching them—the pleasure of the Ancient Mariner when he blessed the water-snakes. Sex had little to say to it; and personal desire nothing. Was he not just over forty?—a very busy Englishman, snatching a hard-earned holiday—a bachelor, moreover, whose own story ...
— Delia Blanchflower • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... struggles of the battle field; they marry and are given in marriage. The gods, morally, were no better than their worshipers. They might be represented as deceitful, dissolute, and cruel, but they could also be regarded as upholders of truth and virtue. Even Homer could say, "Verily the blessed gods love not evil deeds, but they reverence justice and the righteous ...
— EARLY EUROPEAN HISTORY • HUTTON WEBSTER
... through that forest of massive columns is the superlative Jew of his times, and of all times. For now—when the voices of that winter day are still, and Solomon's Porch has vanished where stood those blessed feet—there is no earthly measurement by which to estimate the Man whom ...
— An Easter Disciple • Arthur Benton Sanford
... make a skip down to Charles Aleyn, temp. Charles I. "of blessed memory." A Sidney collegian of Cambridge, he began life as an usher in the celebrated school of Thomas Farnably,—another great man of whom you never heard, O Don!—a famous school, in Goldsmith's Rents, near Red-Cross Street, in the Parish of ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, Issue 15, January, 1859 • Various
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