"Upraise" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... since an universal peace, A peace eternal, has not been proclaimed, Thy military might must still increase, Thy naval glory must not be defamed. But only when thine honour shall demand, Or injured right, upraise thy ...
— The Song of the Exile—A Canadian Epic • Wilfred S. Skeats
... brought out the Lamp when suddenly appeared to him the Marid who said, "Adsum! thy slave between thy hands is come: ask of me whatso thou wantest." " 'tis my desire," the Moorman replied, "that thou upraise from its present place Alaeddin's pavilion with its inmates and all that be therein, not forgetting myself, and set it down upon my own land, Africa. Thou knowest my town and I want the building placed in the gardens hard by it." The Marid-slave replied, "Hearkening and obedience: close ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton
... hear the music and not the instrument. There was such a beauty of heroism shining forth from the crippled poet when he evoked the victories of the mind, the forerunners of other victories, the conquest of the air, the "flying God" who should upraise the peoples, and, like the star of Bethlehem, lead them in his train, in ecstasies, towards far distant spaces or near revenge. The splendor of these visions of energy did not prevent Christophe's seeing their danger, and foreknowing whither this change and the growing clamor of the new ...
— Jean-Christophe Journey's End • Romain Rolland
... praise Is one glad psalm of hope and joy, Long, long before their heads upraise Each sleeping, dreamy ...
— Chatterbox, 1906 • Various
... world rolls in a rhythm of praise, And the winds are one with the clouds and beams— Midsummer days! Midsummer days! The dusks grow vast in a purple haze, While the West from a rapture of sunset rights, Faint stars their exquisite lamps upraise— Midsummer nights! ...
— The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions - Joints In Our Social Armour • James Runciman
... ancient city. On our way we found two wells, lately dug, and the Taleb-Kaed says, water is every where found near the surface, and always good, in spite of the disagreeable gaseous exhalation when drunk. A few tiny palms are also planted about these wells, in this Turkish attempt to upraise Septimius Severus. The little sprigs of palm pleased all, and were welcomed by us as the germ of the future oasis, which shall afford shade and fruit to a large population. There may be a dozen wells already dug, and every year the infant oasis shows more signs of life, and a little, little ...
— Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 • James Richardson
... religious zeal which had had a considerable influence in gaining her affections grew, by no moderate degrees, less fervent. It was whispered, too, that the new landlord could, when time, place, and company were to his mind, upraise a song as merrily, and drink a glass as jollily, as in the days of yore. These were the weightiest charges that could now be brought against him; and wise men thought, that, whatever might have been the evil of his past life, he had returned with a desire (which ...
— Fanshawe • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... the gale, Ye cowslips delicately pale, Upraise your loaded stems; Unfold your cups in splendour; speak! Who decked you with that ruddy streak And gilt your ...
— Life and Remains of John Clare - "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" • J. L. Cherry
... The land our fathers wrought for, The liberties they fought for? What bulwark shall secure Her shrines of law, and keep her founts of justice pure? Then, ah then, As in the olden days, The builders must upraise A rampart of indomitable men. And once again, Dear Mother, if thy heart and hand be true, There will be building work for thee to do; Yea, more than once again, Thou shalt win lasting praise, And never-dying honour shall be thine, For setting many stones in that ...
— The Poems of Henry Van Dyke • Henry Van Dyke
... with our own. Either it is an object which at the same time presents and hides itself from our faculty of intuition, and which urges us to strive to represent it to ourselves, without leaving room to hope that this aspiration will be satisfied; or else it is an object which appears to upraise itself as an enemy, even against our existence—which provokes us, so to say, to combat, and makes us anxious as to the issue. In all the alleged examples there is visible in the same way the same action on the faculty of feeling. All ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller |
