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«The statues of archdukes or composers presided with pensive nonchalance.»
Author: Patrick Leigh Fermor | Keywords: composers, nonchalance, pensive, presided, presiding
«With eyes up-rais'd, as one inspir'd, Pale Melancholy sate retir'd, And from her wild sequester'd seat, In notes by distance made more sweet, Pour'd thro' the mellow horn her pensive soul.»
Author: William Collins | Keywords: horn, mellow, mellows, notes, pale, pensive, pour, sate, sated, Sates, sequester, sequestered, thro
«The hills,Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun, -- the valesStretching in pensive quietness between;The venerable woods -- rivers that moveIn majesty, and the complaining brooksThat make the meadows green; and, poured round all,Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, --Are but the solemn decorations allOf the great tomb of man.»
Author: William Cullen Bryant (Writer) | Keywords: Brooks, complaining, decoration, decorations, Great River, majesty, meadows, move in, pensive, poured, quietness, rib, ribbed, rock-ribbed, solemn, tomb, vales, venerable
«For oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood,They flash upon that inward eyeWhich is the bliss of solitude;And then my heart with pleasure fills,And dances with the daffodils.»
Author: William Wordsworth (Poet) | Keywords: bliss, couch, Couched, couches, couching, daffodil, dances, Dances With, fills, flash, flashed, flashing, inward, in a flash, lie in, mood, oft, pensive, vacant
«While pensive poets painful vigils keep - Sleepless themselves to give their readers sleep»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | About: Poets | Keywords: pensive, poets, readers, sleepless, vigil, vigils
«Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher | Keywords: animals, broad, broadest, broads, countenance, countenanced, countenances, diffident, expression, faced, flowers, hollyhock, hollyhocks, honest, much as, pensive, plain, sad, sunflower, sunflowers, upright
«Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts»
Author: Honore de Balzac (Novelist) | Keywords: boxes, cash, pensive, smiling, sweetly
«Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.»
Author: John Milton (Historian, Poet, Scholar) | Keywords: demure, devout, flowing, majestic, nun, pensive, robe, The Majestic
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