Chapter SUNBEAM to SUNFLOWER of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

SUNBEAM to SUNFLOWER

SUNBEAM.—Her face appears to be wrapped in a veil of sunbeams: unblemished is her complexion, and her skin is without a wrinkle.

Sir William Jones.—Poem of Tarafa, Verse 10, Vol. VIII.

Here was a murder bravely carried through
The eye of observation, unobserved.

Cyril Tourneur.—The Atheist’s Tragedy.

A sunbeam passes through pollution unpolluted.

Eusebius.—De Demonstratione Euangelica, Book IV. Chap. 13. Fourth Article of the Creed; Lord Bacon.—Advancement of Learning, title Hist. of Nature; and Lillie’s Euphues, Book II.; Notes and Queries, N.S. Vol. III. Page 218; but in page 336 of the same volume, the idea is traced by Mr. Smirke to Tertullian.

Christ alone, like his emblem the light, passed through all things undefiled.

Horne.—On Psalm XXVI. Verse 4; and on Psalm XVIII. Verse 20.

The sun, if he could avoid it, would not shine upon a dunghill; but his rays are so pure, Eliza, and celestial—I never heard that they were polluted by it.

Sterne.—Letter 87, To Eliza.

For a preserving spirit doth still pass
Untainted through this mass.

Vaughan—Resurrection and Immortality, Stanza 2.

SUNFLOWER.—The proud giant of the garden race,
Who, madly rushing to the sun’s embrace,
O’ertops her fellows with aspiring aim,
Demands his wedded love, and bears his name.

Churchill.—Gotham, Book I.

SUNFLOWER.—But one, the lofty follower of the sun,
Sad when he sets, shuts up her yellow leaves,
Drooping all night; and when he warm returns,
Points her enamour’d bosom to his ray.

Thomson.—Summer, Line 216.