Quotes of Robert Bridges - somelinesforyou

“ Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly well know whither, And rest I well know where. ”

- Robert Bridges

“ Beneath the crisp and wintry carpet hid A million buds but stay their blossoming And trustful birds have built their nests amid The shuddering boughs, and only wait to sing Till one soft shower from the south shall bid And hither tempt the pilgrim steps of Spring. ”

- Robert Bridges

“ Beauty sat with me all the summer day, / Awaiting the sure triumph of her eye; / Nor mark'd I till we parted, how, hard by, / Love in her train stood ready for his prey. ”

- Robert Bridges

“ When death to either shall come — I pray it be first to me. ”

- Robert Bridges

“ Simple and brave, his faith awoke Ploughmen to struggle with their fate; Armies won battles when he spoke, And out of Chaos sprang the state. ”

- Robert Bridges

“ The ground-root folly of this piteous philanthropyis thinking to distribute indivisibles,and make equality in things incommensurable:forged under such delusions, all Utopiasare castles in the air or counsels of despair. ”

- Robert Bridges

“ When death to either shall come — I pray it be first to me. ”

- Robert Bridges

“ Beneath the crisp and wintry carpet hid A million buds but stay their blossoming And trustful birds have built their nests amid The shuddering boughs, and only wait to sing Till one soft shower from the south shall bid And hither tempt the pilgrim steps of Spring. ”

- Robert Bridges

“ Beneath the crisp and wintry carpet hid A million buds but stay their blossoming And trustful birds have built their nests amid The shuddering boughs, and only wait to sing Till one soft shower from the south shall bid And hither tempt the pilgrim steps of Spring. ”

- Robert Bridges

“ Simple and brave, his faith awoke Ploughmen to struggle with their fate; Armies won battles when he spoke, And out of Chaos sprang the state. ”

- Robert Bridges

“ Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly well know whither, And rest I well know where. ”

- Robert Bridges

“ Simple and brave, his faith awoke Ploughmen to struggle with their fate; Armies won battles when he spoke, And out of Chaos sprang the state. ”

- Robert Bridges

“ Pure Reason left to herselfrelieth on axioms and essential premiseswhich she can neither question nor resolve. ”

- Robert Bridges

“ Simple and brave, his faith awoke Ploughmen to struggle with their fate; Armies won battles when he spoke, And out of Chaos sprang the state. ”

- Robert Bridges

“ I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds. ”

- Robert Bridges

“ I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds. ”

- Robert Bridges

“ Beneath the crisp and wintry carpet hid A million buds but stay their blossoming And trustful birds have built their nests amid The shuddering boughs, and only wait to sing Till one soft shower from the south shall bid And hither tempt the pilgrim steps of Spring. ”

- Robert Bridges

“ Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly well know whither, And rest I well know where. ”

- Robert Bridges

“ Repudiation of pleasur is a reason'd folly of imperfection. Ther is no motiv can rebate or decompose the intrinsic joy of activ life, whereon all function whatsoever in man is based. ”

- Robert Bridges

“ When death to either shall come — I pray it be first to me. ”

- Robert Bridges

“ Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly well know whither, And rest I well know where. ”

- Robert Bridges

“ The name of happiness is but a wider term for the unalloy'd conditions of the Pleasur of Life, attendant on all function, and not to be deny'd to th' soul, unless forsooth in our thought of nature spiritual is by definition unnatural. ”

- Robert Bridges

“ The name of happiness is but a wider term for the unalloy'd conditions of the Pleasur of Life, attendant on all function, and not to be deny'd to th' soul, unless forsooth in our thought of nature spiritual is by definition unnatural. ”

- Robert Bridges

“ I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds. ”

- Robert Bridges

“ The name of happiness is but a wider term for the unalloy'd conditions of the Pleasur of Life, attendant on all function, and not to be deny'd to th' soul, unless forsooth in our thought of nature spiritual is by definition unnatural. ”

- Robert Bridges

“ Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly well know whither, And rest I well know where. ”

- Robert Bridges

“ Beauty sat with me all the summer day, / Awaiting the sure triumph of her eye; / Nor mark'd I till we parted, how, hard by, / Love in her train stood ready for his prey. ”

- Robert Bridges

“ When death to either shall come — I pray it be first to me. ”

- Robert Bridges

“ Pure Reason left to herselfrelieth on axioms and essential premiseswhich she can neither question nor resolve. ”

- Robert Bridges

“ Repudiation of pleasur is a reason'd folly of imperfection. Ther is no motiv can rebate or decompose the intrinsic joy of activ life, whereon all function whatsoever in man is based. ”

- Robert Bridges
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