To learn my lore on Chaucer's knee, I left much prouder company; Thee gentle Spenser fondly led, But me he mostly sent to bed.
But Romance, notwithstanding, has not yet altogether deserted the Paris that was her loyal sweetheart in the days when the tricolour was a prouder flag, its subjects a prouder people.
She was of her beauty proud, And prouder of her youth, The while unto her flaming heart The bulbul gave his truth.
Nor shall Death snatch her from his pursuit:-- "If my darling should depart And search the skies forprouder friends, God forbid my angry heart In other love should seek amends!
Were we Germans nothing but followers, we could not be anything greater or prouderthan the lineal inheritors and followers of such a culture.
But here was a prouder moment still: that little graceful movement of recognition, that smile so transient as to be scarce detected, sent a thrill of happiness all through me.
It is a strange thing, Mr. Tramp, but I felt that title a prouderone than if I had been called the Governor of Bombay.
Miss Raymond's indignation was superb; for, be it known, she was prouder of the said animal than of any thing else in the world.
If there was one thing Mrs. Wallace was prouder of than another, it was the arrangement of this sanctum.
Good and kind-hearted as she was, there breathed noprouder woman than Lady Catharine Livingstone.
Yet prouderis the mother above all mothers, and Proserpine such as to take the place of many.
A proudersceptre shall be thine, nor shalt thou face marriage with a husband unworthy of thee.
Oh, we were proud of you back then, but we are prouder now; We see the stamp of splendor God has placed upon your brow, And we who are the folks at home shall pray the old time prayer, And ask the God of Mercy to protect you with His care.
No poet in English history was ever seated on a prouder throne, and no heathen deity was ever more indifferent than he to the incense of idolaters.
Lord Byron was descended from the Byrons of Normandy who accompanied William the Conqueror in his invasion of England, of which illustrious lineage the poet was prouder than of his poetry.
Others paid the same penalty, I am sure, without grudging it, for most of us were prouder of that action than of any other in our political lives.
Believe me, this race is prouder than our own, and it is not by unworthy sneers at them that we shall make them less vainglorious.
Let those who know a mother's heart decide which daughter Serina was the prouder of, the good or the bad.
Irene's mother was even prouder of Drury's success than the daughter was.
Yes, ten sons; I should be prouder than words can say to send every one of them.
It seems as though a part of my life is buried with him, away in that little French cemetery; but at this moment there is noprouder man in England than I.
What are the casements lined with creeping herbs, The prouder sashes fronted with a range Of orange, myrtle, or the fragrant weed, The Frenchman's darling?
I am proud that you are pleased with the Epitaph[670] I sent you, and shall be stillprouder to see it perpetuated by the chisel.
I am prouder of my 'common' estate than you are of your royalty!
So when the story was known the people became prouder than ever of their great painter, and the round O of Giotto has become a proverb to this day in Tuscany.
Even when she married Mario, the jeweller, she did not go far from home, and Tintoretto grew every year fonder and prouder of his clever and beautiful daughter.
She moved with a prouder step--there was a slight flush upon her usually pale cheek.
It will be pardoned if I say that Aymer was prouder that day than ever he had been in his life.
I could not have been prouder had I been king indeed, and she my royal consort beside me!
I was very proud of him as a representative of my country, and each word that he spoke made me prouder and happier.
But the Lake of Menteith has still earlier andprouder memories.
The genius of Scottish Romance, or of Scottish History, could nowhere find a prouder seat than Ben Lomond.
When this war is ended and tourists are permitted to visit foreign parts Americans coming abroad and seeing what has here been done will be prouder of their country and their fellow countrymen than ever they have been.
And studying them I was prouder than ever of the land that bore them and sundry millions of others like unto them.
Andrews says in his tribute to Lee, "None are prouder of his record than those who fought against him, who while recognizing the purity of his motive, thought him in error in going from under the stars and stripes.
None are prouder of his record than those who fought against him, who, while recognizing the purity of his motive, thought him in error in going from under the stars and stripes.
That was a proud day for you, but it was a prouder day for us, when you left the shores of old Hellespont and put your foot upon an American deck.
But he was particularly the poet of Ireland, and on this point I may be allowed to say a word, as one proud to be an Irishman, and prouder still to be an American.
See how it wears a crown, prouder than monarch ever wore, sometimes jauntily; and sometimes after the storm the dignified survivors of the tempest seem to view a field of slaughter and to pity a fallen foe.
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