"Heyday" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Heyday!" says Jurgen: "well, but this Jurgen has been a great many persons in my time. So very possibly ...
— Jurgen - A Comedy of Justice • James Branch Cabell
... she lay like a pale broken lily, that years ago her father, in the reckless heyday of youth, had wilfully deceived his father, and married against his wish and commands; she did not know how that unhappy marriage had ended in pride, passion, and sullen, jealous temper—while those who should have foreborne went each their ...
— Dora Thorne • Charlotte M. Braeme
... chosen; but the fact that he never chose lends colour to the supposition that in reality he had no choice. However, in the original or in translations he read Shakespeare; and it may be presumed that he knew Goethe and Schiller almost by heart. Naturally he determined to rival them. In that heyday of the big Romantic movement he just as naturally determined to rival or to beat them by piling terror on terror, horror on horror. At that period the latest word in the theatre was melodrama of the wildest sort, ...
— Richard Wagner - Composer of Operas • John F. Runciman
... In the heyday of Hannah More's popularity there were living in Bristol or its vicinity three young men who were to bring in the new literary epoch by which Hannah has been forgotten—Coleridge, Southey and Wordsworth. Both Southey ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. • Various
... to its full height. "I am hurt—yes, deeply hurt—by your lack of faith. My magnificent build should make it evident that I am an exceedingly powerful flyer. In the heyday of my youth I could fly around the world in five hours. But come along. I shall ...
— David and the Phoenix • Edward Ormondroyd
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