"Bloom" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the "Character of Richard St—le, Esq.," was Dr. Wagstaffe, one of those careless wits[344] who lived to repent a crazy life of wit, fancy, and hope, and an easy, indolent one, whose genial hours force up friends like hot-house plants, that bloom and flower in the spot where they are raised, but will not endure the change of place and season—this wit caught the tone of Swift, and because, as his editor tells us, "he had some friends in the ministry, and thought he could not take a better ...
— Calamities and Quarrels of Authors • Isaac D'Israeli
... kiss—Macavoy, the idle, ill- cared-for, boisterous giant. His face became red like that of a child caught in an awkward act, and with an absurd shyness he stooped and touched her cheek. Then he turned to Hilton, and blurted out, "Aw, the rose o' the valley, the pride o' the wide wurruld! aw, the bloom o' the hills! I'd have kissed ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... Ravaged each bloom by which its path was traced, Sporting at will, and moulding sport to art, With what sad holiness—the ...
— Guy Livingstone; - or, 'Thorough' • George A. Lawrence
... a rose within a garden fair, And, tending it with more than loving care, I thought how, with the glory of its bloom, I should the darkness of my life illume; And, watching, ever smiled to see the lusty bud Drink freely in the summer sun to tinct ...
— The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar • Paul Laurence Dunbar
... existence came into full bloom under the light of a Christian civilization. The political, social and religious institutions were sufficiently well organized in the Old World to be advantageously introduced, with some modifications, into a young nation in the ...
— Colleges in America • John Marshall Barker
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