"Blackamoor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... are mistaken in each other, most enlightened sir. But it is mere waste of soap to attempt to wash a blackamoor white. (He opened the door, and in stalked the Devil.) Here is a gentleman who will lay before you a document, which I hope will give the cause of my friend a ...
— Faustus - his Life, Death, and Doom • Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger
... necessary preliminary to such a union), says, "What have you to do with your likings and your preferences, child? Depend upon it, it is safest to begin with a little aversion. I am sure I hated your poor dear uncle like a blackamoor before we were married; and yet, you know, my dear, what a good wife I made him." Such is my learned friend's argument, to a hair. But finding that this doctrine did not appear to go down with the House so glibly as he had expected my honorable ...
— The American Union Speaker • John D. Philbrick
... Marjanah (Morgiana) "the she coral-branch ;" and like this a name generally given to negroes. We have seen white applied to a blackamoor by way of metonomy and red is also connected with black skins by way of fun. A Persian verse says : "If a black wear red, e'en ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton
... was your Church before Luther?" Protestants answer, "Where were you this morning before you washed your face?" But, if Protestants can clean themselves into the likeness of Cyprian or Irenaeus, they must scrub very hard, and have well-nigh learned the art of washing the blackamoor white. ...
— Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) • John Henry Newman
... Make up your mind quick, Thquire. There'll be beer to feth. I've never met with nothing but beer ath'll ever clean a comic blackamoor.' ...
— Hard Times • Charles Dickens*
... Of Ham and Mizraim came the Ethiopians, or blackamoor (Psa 105:23): The land of Ham was the country about Egypt; wherefore Israel was first afflicted ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan
... a female has a call From people that are dead, Like Paris ladies, she receives Her visitors in bed. But Pompey's spirit would not come Like spirits that are white, Because he was a Blackamoor, ...
— The Haunted Hour - An Anthology • Various
... he found himself in front of a pailing with some grotesque-looking figures carved in wood grinning above it, and within it a bamboo-leaf-covered hut, before which stood a remarkably big ugly-looking blackamoor. Jack looked at him, and he looked at Jack, and uttered some words which clearly were meant to express, "Hillo, youngster, where are you hurrying to?" Jack followed a very natural impulse, which was to run as fast as he ...
— The Three Midshipmen • W.H.G. Kingston
... he was young and could have told a whispering tale in a fair lady's ear. And they fell to dancing, and Romeo was suddenly struck with the exceeding beauty of a lady who danced there, who seemed to him to teach the torches to burn bright, and her beauty to show by night like a rich jewel worn by a blackamoor; beauty too rich for use, too dear for earth! like a snowy dove trooping with crows (he said), so richly did her beauty and perfections shine above the ladies her companions. While he uttered these ...
— Tales from Shakespeare • Charles and Mary Lamb
... Do: because, my lady, Even a husband may be false, you know; Ay, even to so sweet a wife as you. Men have odd tastes. They'll surfeit on the charms Of Cleopatra, and then turn aside To woo her blackamoor. 'Tis so, in faith; Or Dora's uncle's gold had ne'er outbid The boundless measure of a love like mine. Think of it, lady, to weigh love with gold! ...
— Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini • George Henry Boker |
