"Springe" Quotes from Famous Books
... course to keepe, The Ayre continual stormes do weepe, The pretty Birdes disdaine to singe, The Maides to smile, the woods to springe, The Mountaines droppe, the valleys morne Till Jack and ... — Notes and Queries, Number 63, January 11, 1851 • Various
... of tortoise shell and gold. He opened it deliberately. "If he does, you'll admit that he will hang on the gallows that he has built himself—although intended for another. I'faith! He's not the first booby to be caught in his own springe. There is in this a measure of poetic justice. Poetry and justice! Do you know, Ruth, they are two things I have ever loved?" And he took ... — Mistress Wilding • Rafael Sabatini
... here the briddes singe, And se the floures and the leves springe, That bringeth into hire rememberaunce A maner ese, medled with grevaunce, And lusty thoughtes ... — Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 • Various
... they do to show their fine stockings, and those of purest silken dye, gold fringes, laces, embroiderings, (it shall go hard but when they go to church, or to any other place, all shall be seen) 'tis but a springe to catch woodcocks; and as [4988]Chrysostom telleth them downright, "though they say nothing with their mouths, they speak in their gait, they speak with their eyes, they speak in the carriage of their bodies." And what shall ... — The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior
... But set a springe for him, "mio ben," My only good, my first last love!— Though Christ knows well what sin is, when He sees some things done they must move Himself to wonder. Let her pass. I think of her by night and day. Must I too join her ... out, alas!... With Giulio, in each word ... — The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
... his heade & ye Wyndes of Marche have flede, Springe doth come, and happylye Then I ... — Cap and Gown - A Treasury of College Verse • Selected by Frederic Knowles |