"Gewgaw" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... quickly at her. She wondered what Madame Beattie thought she could get out of giving up the adored gewgaw into other hands. ...
— The Prisoner • Alice Brown
... the arms of war Of times remote, and nations distant far; Alas! the club and brand but serve to show How wide extends the reign of wrong and woe; And tores uncouth, and feathery circlets, tell In human hearts what gewgaw follies dwell. Yes! all that man has framed his image bears; And much of hate, and much of pride, appears. "Pleasant it is each diverse step to scan, By which the savage first assumes the man; To mark what feelings sway his softening ...
— My Schools and Schoolmasters - or The Story of my Education. • Hugh Miller
... the most complete sincerity, find ample appreciation in the vast mediocrity of the public, and are never troubled by any problem worse than the vagaries of their fountain-pens. Such authors enjoy in plenty the gewgaw known as happiness. Of nearly all really original artists, however, it may be said that they are at loggerheads with the public—as an almost inevitable consequence of their originality; and for them the problem of compromise or no-compromise ...
— The Author's Craft • Arnold Bennett
... from all that's excellent! Faith, honour, virtue, all good things forbid, That I should go from her, who sets my love Above the price of kingdoms. Give, you gods, Give to your boy, your Caesar, This rattle of a globe to play withal, This gewgaw world, and put him cheaply off: I'll not be pleased with ...
— The Works of John Dryden, Volume 5 (of 18) - Amboyna; The state of Innocence; Aureng-Zebe; All for Love • John Dryden
... teeth, nor curse: and why not, Siegfried? Do you see this? So should every honest man be—cold, dead, and leaden-coffined. This was one who would be constant in friendship, and the pole wanders; one who would be immortal, and the light that shines upon his pale forehead now, through yonder gewgaw window, undulated from its star hundreds of years ago. That is constancy, that is life. ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 • Various |
