"Dissever" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... West, from Dee to Yare, Now in equal bonds are wed: Peace her new-found flower shall wear, Rose that dapples white with red; North and South, dissever'd yet, Join in ...
— The Visions of England - Lyrics on leading men and events in English History • Francis T. Palgrave
... bold Of Telamon, to whom he nearest fell. 550 He, quick, at the retiring conqueror cast His radiant spear; Polydamas the stroke Shunn'd, starting sideward; but Antenor's son Archilochus the mortal dint received, Death-destined by the Gods; where neck and spine 555 Unite, both tendons he dissever'd wide, And, ere his knees, his nostrils met the ground. Then Ajax in his turn vaunting aloud Against renown'd Polydamas, exclaim'd. Speak now the truth, Polydamas, and weigh 560 My question well. His life whom I have slain Makes it not compensation for the loss Of Prothoeenor's life! To me he seems ...
— The Iliad of Homer - Translated into English Blank Verse • Homer
... attack, Hooker had decided to interpose more force between the wings of the rebel army, in order to permanently dissever Jackson from the main body. If Sickles had been allowed to attack the left flank of the enemy opposite the Furnace, as he requested permission to do earlier in the afternoon, this co-operative movement could hardly have failed to produce great results; afterward it was ...
— Chancellorsville and Gettysburg - Campaigns of the Civil War - VI • Abner Doubleday
... the angels in Heaven above nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul of the beautiful ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling
... of his situation must have so moulded him to itself that, considered in regard to his fellow-creatures and the business of life, he could not be said to possess his right mind. He had contrived—or, rather, he had happened—to dissever himself from the world, to vanish, to give up his place and privileges with living men without being admitted among the dead. The life of a hermit is nowise parallel to his. He was in the bustle of the city as of old, but the ...
— Twice Told Tales • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... this sort philosophers, above all other men, may be observed in every sort of way to dissever the soul from the communion ...
— Phaedo - The Last Hours Of Socrates • Plato
... that Banner—furl it sadly! Once ten thousands hailed it gladly, And ten thousands wildly, madly, Swore it should forever wave; Swore that foeman's sword should never Hearts like theirs entwined dissever, Till that flag should float forever O'er their freedom ...
— The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8 • Various |
