"Fate sits on these dark battlements and frowns,……" — Ann Radcliffe
"Fate sits on these dark battlements and frowns, And as the portal opens to receive me, A voice in hollow murmurs through the courts Tells of a nameless deed."
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27 Quotes by Ann Radcliffe
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At first a small line of inconceivable splendour emerged on the horizon, which, quickly expanding, the sun appeared in all…
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One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or…
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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.
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I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.
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The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber,…
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I wish that all those, who on this night are not merry enough to speak before they think, may ever…
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But no matter for that, you can be tolerably happy, perhaps, notwithstanding; but as for guessing how happy I am,…
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There is something in the ardour and ingenousness of youth, which is particularly pleasing to the contemplation of an old…
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And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense…
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Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.
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I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the…
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More Battlements Quotes
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It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that…
— John Owen
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The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments,…
— John Owen
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Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees,…
— John Milton
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With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars.
— William Wordsworth
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What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea-coasts, our army…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Primeval forests! virgin sod! That Saxon has not ravish'd yet, Lo! peak on peak in stairways set- In stepping stairs…
— Joaquin Miller
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The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of…
— Bill Vaughan
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Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in…
— Bram Stoker
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From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle…
— Cornelia Funke
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The Stars. Jared slept beneath them, uneasy in the rustling leaves. From the battlements Finn gazed up at them, seeing…
— Catherine Fisher
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Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges…
— Zelda Fitzgerald
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And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the…
— Emma Donoghue
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