"Immortally" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... drudgery, and disease; there had been also something of the storm and stress of religious and philosophic doubt. With the beginning of his artistic life he passes into his Ideal Period, when by reason of the terrific shock of the real he was able to realize "a new and immortally fine reconstruction of his youth." He was to know what suffering meant in the future; but the serenity and joy of his life from this point are apparent to all who may ...
— Sidney Lanier • Edwin Mims
... whispered. "Say it just once. Tell me you love me." It was the old, old plea, but in Tony's ears it was immortally new. ...
— Wild Wings - A Romance of Youth • Margaret Rebecca Piper
... mother's voice. The author shook her head abstractedly. Words were singing in her ears to drown all else. They flowed through her whole being, down her arms, out through her hand and pencil, wrote themselves immortally. Oh, this was Inspiration! Feeling at last immeshed in tangibility, swimming out on a tide of words that rushed along so fast pencil could hardly keep up with them. Oh, Inspiration! The real thing! Divine, ecstatic, but fleeting; it must be caught ...
— Missy • Dana Gatlin
... 'Immortally safe, sir,' returned Uriah, writhing in the direction of the voice. 'I should wish mother to be got into my state. I never should have been got into my present state if I hadn't come here. I wish mother had come ...
— David Copperfield • Charles Dickens
... wrapped in rolling mist and whirling cloud, and a storm of sleet and wind roared down upon the toiling pigmies. The light was swept out of the day, and a deep gloom prevailed; but Frona knew that somewhere up there, clinging and climbing and immortally striving, the long line of ants still twisted towards the sky. And she thrilled at the thought, strong with man's ancient love of mastery, and stepped into the line which came out of the storm behind and disappeared into ...
— A Daughter of the Snows • Jack London
... But you still Are jester, even at death-beds—knowing well I have no power to slay you. You retreat But perish not; the sphere of your domain Contracts, but it endures immortally. Have done with jesting: look me in the eyes! Acknowledge me, and all high heritors Who shall succeed me, your eternal foe, Your eternal victor in half-victories— But never your destroyer to ...
— Mr. Faust • Arthur Davison Ficke
... the community to a degree which makes it an inapt medium for any high achievement. It matters little how small a city or a nation is, provided the spirit of its people is great. It is the smallest communities that have most powerfully and most immortally raised the level of civilization, and surrounded the human species (in its own eyes) with a halo of glory which belongs to no other species. Only a handful of people, hemmed in on every side, created the eternal radiance of Athens, and the fame of the little city of Florence ...
— The Task of Social Hygiene • Havelock Ellis
... and Browning. Each seems to have certain qualities almost greater than the qualities of the greatest; and yet in each some precipitation of arrogant egoism remains in the crucible, in which the draught has all but run immortally clear. ...
— Figures of Several Centuries • Arthur Symons
... their loveliness, she KNEW how immortally beautiful they were, great pistils of rose-coloured, snow-fed fire in the blue twilight of the heaven. She could SEE it, she knew it, but she was not of it. She was divorced, debarred, ...
— Women in Love • D. H. Lawrence |
