"Destin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... restoring blessings send, I did not thee, with my whole self offend. Who sins thro' weakness is less guilty thought, Be pacify'd, and spare a venial fault. On me, when smiling fate shall smiling gifts bestow, I'll not ungrateful to thy godhead go. A destin'd goat shall on thy altar lye, And the horn'd parent of my flock shall dye. A sucking pig appease thy injur'd shrine, And hallow'd bowls o're-flow with generous wine. Then thrice thy frantick votaries shall round Thy temple dance, with ...
— The Satyricon • Petronius Arbiter
... de ce monde ou coucous et carrosses [3] Ont le meme destin; Et, rosse, elle a vecu ce que vivant les ...
— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo
... I spin and sometimes sing, (For now and then my heart will glow) Thou measur'st Time's expanding wing By thee the noontide hour I know: Though silent thou, Still shalt thou flow, And jog along thy destin'd way: But when I glean the sultry fields, When Earth her yellow Harvest ...
— Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs • Robert Bloomfield
... all unmeet, my humble strain Is destin'd still to flow in vain;— Shouldst thou the tribute now refuse Essayed by Misery and the Muse; Reject not yet the lay with scorn, To thee by kindred feelings borne;— For still thy tales of plaintive tone Breathe pain and sufferings, ...
— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan
... am not the first Person of my Sex Has drawn a Sword upon an Enemy; Do you not say he is my Father's Murderer? And does he not deprive me of that Crown, You say the Gods have destin'd me to wear? ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. II • Aphra Behn
... affliction denote, Which my second is destin'd to feel And my whole is the best antidote That affliction ...
— Persuasion • Jane Austen |
