"Soon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Diderik hewed, Bright sparks the gloom relieved; Unless the beast had the knight released He’d soon to death have grieved. ...
— King Diderik - and the fight between the Lion and Dragon and other ballads - - - Translator: George Borrow • Thomas J. Wise
... able amid such thick darkness to raise on high so bright a beacon and shed a light on the true interests of life, thee I follow, glory of the Greek race, and plant now my footsteps firmly fixed in thy imprinted marks. . . . For soon as thy philosophy issuing from a godlike intellect has begun with loud voice, to proclaim the nature of things, the terrors of the mind are dispelled, the walls of the world part asunder, I see things in operation throughout the whole void: the divinity of the gods is ...
— The Approach to Philosophy • Ralph Barton Perry
... thin, light water by all means use, of good smell and taste, like to the air in sight, such as is soon hot, soon cold, and which Hippocrates so much approves, if at least it may be had. Rain water is purest, so that it fall not down in great drops, and be used forthwith, for it quickly putrefies. Next to it fountain ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior
... in Corsica," he replied; "but I was brought, while very young, to Genoa, and as soon as I was old enough for military ...
— Vendetta • Honore de Balzac
... vehement shake of the head he made answer. "I didn't think you would start so soon. I thought—I would be ...
— Charles Rex • Ethel M. Dell
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