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More "Spright" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ye saw that which no eyes can see, The inward beauty of her lively spright, Garnished with heavenly gifts of high degree, Much more then would ye wonder at that sight, And stand astonished like to those which read Medusa's mazeful head. There dwells sweet love, and constant chastity, Unspotted faith, and comely womanhood, Regard of honor, and mild modesty; ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 2 (of 4) • Various
... Sol's bright ray, Of boat or awful spright; For grief—or guilt conceived by day, Conspicuous is at night. Thus Isabel's unearthly woe, Remain'd for many years; But as our superstitions go, So ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, - Volume 12, No. 329, Saturday, August 30, 1828 • Various
... set forth with more metal and spright, Our horses were empty, our coxcombs were light; O'er Dellamore forest we, tantivy, posted, Till our horses were basted as if they were roasted: In truth, we pursued might have been by our haste, And I think Sir ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan
... 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, brawl, ...
— A Grammar of the English Tongue • Samuel Johnson
... Are so exceeding spacious and wyde, And sprinckled with such sweet variety Of all that pleasant is to eare or eye, That I, nigh ravisht with rare thoughts' delight, My tedious travele doe forget thereby; And when I gin to feele decay of might, It strength to me supplies, and chears my dulled spright. ...
— Lore of Proserpine • Maurice Hewlett
... that which no eyes can see, The inward beauty of her lively spright, Garnisht with heavenly guifts of high degree, Much more then would ye wonder at that sight, And stand astonisht lyke to those which red Medusaes mazeful hed. There dwels sweet love, and constant chastity, ...
— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy
... Beneficent, beautiful, inexpressible— Of life on time!— Yet have they flashed and been In millions, since 'twas his to bring The heaven-creating Spring, An angel of adventure and delight, In all her beauty and all her strength and worth, With her great guerdons of romance and spright, And those high needs that fill the flesh with might, Home to the citizens of ...
— Hawthorn and Lavender - with Other Verses • William Ernest Henley
... watching, day or night. I brace myself to bear affliction, for to foil The buffets of ill-fate is given to no wight. But be thou of good cheer; for never shall my heart Forget thee nor thy thought be absent from my spright. Look on thy wasted frame and what is fallen thereon And thence infer of me and argue ...
— The Book Of The Thousand Nights And One Night, Volume III • Anonymous
... true that our immortal spright, Derived from heavenly pure, in wand'ring still, In novelty and strangeness doth delight, And by discoverent power discerneth ill; And if the body for to work his best Doth with the seasons change ...
— Rosalynde - or, Euphues' Golden Legacy • Thomas Lodge
... saw a noble sight, That never view'd a brave sea-fight! Hang up your bloody colours in the air, Up with your fights, and your nettings prepare; Your merry mates cheer, with a lusty bold spright. Now each man his brindace, and then to the fight. St George, St George, we cry, The shouting Turks reply. Oh, now it begins, and the gun-room grows hot, Ply it with culverin and with ...
— The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Vol II - With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes • John Dryden
... fresher melody, newer vital ecstasy. (Sir) Edward Burne Jones, Oscar Wilde and W.S. Gilbert had all not dubiously striven nor for shallow effect. They had, though labouring incessantly apart, built up a ghost which was in no fear of glimmering or dissolution; and now Berthold Tours, spright of another element of sentimental, I should say continental mythical music, upon the scene springs with his amazing apparatus of staves and octaves, aiding the chef-de-musique and his trained voices to make sound within ...
— Original Letters and Biographic Epitomes • J. Atwood.Slater
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