Never could the strumpet, With all her double vigour, art and nature, Once stir my temper; but this virtuous maid Subdues me quite.
I am senseless of your wrath; a touch more rare Subdues all pangs, all fears.
Only for praise; and praise we may afford To any lady that subdues a lord.
Your virtue is To make him worthy whose offence subdues him, And curse that justice did it.
His lips parted, as if to utter some vehement reply; then he bit them with angry force, and knit his brow like one who subdues and keeps down some inward strife.
Character And First Campaigns Of Belisarius--He Invades And Subdues The Vandal Kingdom Of Africa--His Triumph.
S: And He it is Who has made two seas to flow freely, the one sweet that subdues thirst by its sweetness, and the other salt that burns by its saltness; and between the two He has made a barrier and inviolable obstruction.
Then mutual, thus they spoke: "Behold on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subduesthe strong!
The united power of peace, innocence, and beauty subdues everything to itself, and life is love.
I feel in Diana's posture the grace and freedom of the forest and the spirit that tames the mountain lion and subdues the fiercest passions.
Beside her stood Sir Henry Irving, wearing the symbols of kingship; and there was majesty of intellect in his every gesture and attitude and the royalty that subdues and overcomes in every line of his sensitive face.
As an external application this preparation subdues inflammation and relieves pain.
In small doses, it exerts a specific influence upon the mucous membranes, relieves nausea and irritation, and subdues inflammation.
He illuminates their understanding, subdues their will, purifies their thoughts, and plants within them all holy principles and affections.
One of these ways is when the pure ideal man subdues the empirical man, and the state suppresses the individual, or again when the individual becomes the state, and the man of time is ennobled to the man of idea.
His fearsubdues his voice to a whisper, heard only by John and the Lord; and the answer, "Thou hast said.
This it is that subdues the human heart and cleanses it from pride, self-seeking, and lust, and that inclines it to bow before the holy and loving God, and to choose Him and life in Him.
This does not take place without the providence of God, in whose power it lies that any one either subdues or is subdued in war; that some are endowed with kingdoms, others made subject to kings.
In the one, the princes and the nations it subdues are ruled by the love of ruling; in the other, the princes and the subjects serve one another in love, the latter obeying, while the former take thought for all.
Abnil[6] Hercules; the champion who subdues heretics and enemies, and who strengthens the heart.
XXVI Tiglath-Pileser, he who tramples upon the Magian world; he who subdues the disobedient; he who has overrun the whole earth.
Yet he instituted, in each year, a fast of thirty days; and strenuously recommended the observance as a discipline which purifies the soul and subdues the body, as a salutary exercise of obedience to the will of God and his apostle.
The plunder of our flocks and herds I have endured without a murmur, but this fatal injury, this irreparable loss, subdues my patience, and calls aloud on the justice of heaven and earth.
Already the iron rules; already it subdues and breaks all in pieces; already it brings all the unwilling into subjection; already we see these things ourselves.
Well may this be termed nobler than the empire of conquest, in which man subduesonly his fellow-man.
He who surpasses orsubdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below.
He was not unprovided, but drawing [Routs him, and subdueshis Kingdom.
Then he set out, without losing Time, to make War on the Itos, and other Towns [Subdues the Itos.
Hence the Kings of India took their Original, being oblig'd never to lay down their Arms, nor keep any Faith, so to support themselves one against another, till a greater Power subdues them.
The jewels of other churches are conspicuous and silly heaps of treasure; but St. Mark's, where every line of space shows delicate labor in rich material, subdues the jewels to their place of subordinate adornment.
Any diligence of theirs is surprising to us of northern and free lands, because their climate subdues and enervates us, and because we can see before them no career open to intelligent industry.
He subduesnations under us, and peoples under our feet.
But our warrior youth, patient in toil and inured to scanty fare, either subdues the soil with the harrow or makes towns shake by their assault.
The aurora of evening, witch who blinds the sun; the sun Indras, in the morning, chases the aurora away; Indras subduesand destroys the witch aurora.
The preceptor subdues it by taking hold of its mane with one hand, and striking it with the other between the ears with four pieces, one after another, of an enchanted iron pillar.
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