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Letter "A" » Aye
«The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, / But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.»
«Now a soft kiss -- Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss»
«If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
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Paradise
| Keywords:
Aye, pass through, pledge, presented
«EXCESS, n. In morals, an indulgence that enforces by appropriate penalties the law of moderation.Hail, high Excess --especially in wine, To thee in worship do I bend the knee Who preach abstemiousness unto me -- My skull thy pulpit, as my paunch thy shrine. Precept on precept, aye, and line on line, Could ne'er persuade so sweetly to agree With reason as thy touch, exact and free, Upon my forehead and along my spine. At thy command eschewing pleasure's cup, With the hot grape I warm no more my wit; When on thy stool of penitence I sit I'm quite converted, for I can't get up. Ungrateful he who afterward would falter To make new sacrifices at thine altar!»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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abstemiousness, afterward, altar, appropriate, Aye, bend, converted, enforces, eschew, eschewed, forehead, grape, hail, higher law, hot line, knee, new line, On Line, paunch, penalties, penitence, preach, precept, pulpit, pulpits, sacrifices, shrine, skull, spine, spines, stool, stools, sweetly, The Skull, The Spine, ungrateful
«The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those monkeys which cling by their tails -- aye, whose tails contract about the limbs, even the dead limbs, of the forest, and they hang suspended beyond the hunter's reach long after they are dead. It is of no use to argue with such men. They have not an apprehensive intellect, but merely, as it were a prehensile tail.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
apprehensive, as it were, Aye, cling, cling to, contract, departed, hunter, limbs, Monkeys, prehensile, reminds, suspended, tails, The Hunter
«In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column; / In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
Aye, column, hexameter, melody, pentameter, pentameters, silvery, The Fountain
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