"Te" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... which this disorder breeds; For euen at home, within his father's Court, The Saint was shrinde whom he did honor most; A louely dame, a virgin pure and chaste, And worthy of a Prince to be embrac'te, Had but her birth (which was obscure, they said) Answerd her beautie; this their opinion staid. Yet did this wilful youth affect her still And none but she was mistres of his will: Full often did his father him disswade From ...
— Old English Plays, Vol. I - A Collection of Old English Plays • Various
... to Karpaty[43] and filled with joy all peoples of this powerful kingdom. In all foreign courts, except in the capital of the Knights of the Cross, the news was received with pleasure. In Rome "Te Deum" was sung. In the provinces of Poland the belief was firmly established, that anything the "Saint lady" asked of God, would ...
— The Knights of the Cross • Henryk Sienkiewicz
... Third Estate; and States-General are become National Assembly; and all France may sing Te Deum. By wise inertia, and wise cessation of inertia, great victory has been gained. It is the last night of June: all night you meet nothing on the streets of Versailles but 'men running with torches' with shouts of ...
— The French Revolution • Thomas Carlyle
... Osborne's wit! The honey dropping from Favonio's tongue, The flowers of Bubo, and the flow of Y—ng! The gracious dew of pulpit eloquence, And all the well-whipped cream of courtly sense, That first was H—vy's, F—-'s next, and then The S—te's, and then H—vy's once again. O, come, that easy Ciceronian style, So Latin, yet so English all the while, As, though the pride of Middleton and Bland, All boys may read, and girls may understand! ...
— Essay on Man - Moral Essays and Satires • Alexander Pope
... you, heart of silver, White heart-flame of polished silver, Burning beneath the blue steeples of the larkspur. And I long to kneel instantly at your feet, While all about us peal the loud, sweet 'Te Deums' ...
— The Second Book of Modern Verse • Jessie B. Rittenhouse
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