"Laurelled" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it in this cave of pain! Cursed be, at once, the high ambition Wherewith the mind itself deludes! Cursed be the glare of apparition That on the finer sense intrudes! Cursed be the lying dream's impression Of name, and fame, and laurelled brow! Cursed, all that flatters as possession, As wife and child, as knave and plow! Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when, for soft, indulgent ...
— Faust • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
... divine treasures which the fugitive Greeks brought back to her bosom; heaven revealed its laws to her; the daring of her children discovered a new hemisphere; she again became sovereign by the sceptre of thought, but this laurelled sceptre only ...
— Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) - Or Italy • Mme de Stael
... and this, but for the revolution which followed, he might possibly have obtained. As it was, the only result was his parading about with him everywhere, from town to town, for months after his return, the lictors with laurelled fasces, which betokened that a triumph was claimed—a pompous incumbrance, which became, as he confessed, a grand subject for evil-disposed jesters, and a ...
— Cicero - Ancient Classics for English Readers • Rev. W. Lucas Collins
... ago and we might have feared them; Now, when they lift the laurelled brow, There shall naught go up from our hosts assembled But a laugh like thunder. ...
— Poems • G.K. Chesterton
... chase a flying goal, Than to sit counting laurelled gains, To guess the Soul within the soul, Than to ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 • Various
... Brooks of Massachusetts a letter condoling with him on the fall of his gallant son in action; for while Perry's brow was laurelled with the wreath of victory, he did not forget that there were mourners weeping for brave hearts which in the fight had been forever ...
— The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 5 • Various |
