"Pleasance" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... chamber the sweet scents of the early summer, the chief of all of them being the savour of the new-cut grass, for about the wide meadows the carles and queens were awork at the beginning of hay harvest; and late as it was in the day, more than one blackbird was singing from the bushes of the castle pleasance. Ralph sighed for very pleasure of life before he had yet well remembered where he was or what had befallen of late; but as he stood at the window and gazed over the meadows, and the memory of all came back to him, he sighed once more for a lack of somewhat that came into his heart, and he smiled ...
— The Well at the World's End • William Morris
... Security is sweet; and light and warm The young heart beats, close shut from every harm." "Yet," Lilith answered slow, "in that still night Ere He, the garden's Lord, passed from our sight, Hast thou forgot his words? 'Lo this fair spot Made for your pleasance; see ye mar it not, Oh, twin-born pair! So richly dight with grace Of soul and stature; unto whom the place I give. Together rule. Bear equal sway O'er all that live herein.' Hath Lilith sought A solitary reign? Hath she in aught Offended? Nay; 'tis Adam who doth ...
— Lilith - The Legend of the First Woman • Ada Langworthy Collier
... nearly level, but it falls away a little and becomes broken and pretty where the river Dill runs through the park, about half a mile from the house. There is a walk called the Pleasance, passing down through shrubs to the river, and then crossing the stream by a foot-bridge, and leading across the fields towards Dillsborough. This bridge is, perhaps, the prettiest spot in Bragton, or, for that matter, anywhere in the county ...
— The American Senator • Anthony Trollope
... great households were fast breaking up; and the whole feudal economy disappeared when the lord of the household withdrew with his family into his "parlour" or "withdrawing-room" and left the hall to his dependants. The Italian refinement of life which told on pleasance and garden told on the remodelling of the house within, raised the principal apartments to an upper floor—a change to which we owe the grand staircases of the time—surrounded the quiet courts by long "galleries of the presence," ...
— History of the English People - Volume 4 (of 8) • John Richard Green
... and haue beene oft in his company. He hearing me say so, began to embrace me a new, and offered me all the courtesie he colde for his sake, saying, although he knew him not, yet for the report he had hard of his pleasance, hee colde not but bee in loue with his perfections being absent."—An Almond for a Parrat, ...
— Kemps Nine Daies Wonder - Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich • William Kemp
... more may sit Within thine own pleasance, To weave, in sentence fit, Thy golden dalliance; When other hands than these Record thy ...
— Collected Poems - In Two Volumes, Vol. II • Austin Dobson
... she dismissed them all, with the exception of two of her handmaids who were most in favour with her. But when the old woman saw that her heart was light and that the season was pleasant to her, she said to her, "Now we can enjoy ourselves aright: so up and let us take our pleasance in the garden." The Princess put her hand upon her shoulder and went out by the private door. The two waiting-women walked in front and she followed them laughing at them and swaying gracefully to and fro in her ample robes; whilst ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 7 • Richard F. Burton |
