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«Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.»
Author: John Cheever | About: Literature | Keywords: guided, inspired, rout, routed, The Damned
«Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared been -To public feasts, where meet a public rout - Where they are without would fain go in, And they that are within would fain go out»
Author: John Davies | Keywords: feasts, rout
«For one of the pleasures of having a rout, / Is the pleasure of having it over.»
Author: Thomas Hood (Humorist, Poet) | Keywords: rout
«He sees that this great roundaboutThe world, with all its motley rout,Church, army, physic, law,Its customs and its businesses,Is no concern at all of his,And says -- what says he? -- Caw.»
«I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, To put to rout all that was not life and not when I had come to die Discover that I had not lived.»
«I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it»
«Fought all his battles o'er again; / And thrice he routed all his foes; and thrice he slew the slain.»
«They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Liberty | Keywords: rout, valued
«As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.»
«Oh, wherefore come ye forth in triumph from the north, / With your hands, and your feet, and your raiment all red? / And wherefore doth your rout send forth a joyous shout? / And whence be the grapes of the wine-press which ye tread?»