O days whose memory tames to fawning down The surly fell of Ocean's bristled neck!
In exact proportion to its vigour, it wins over former enemies, civilises the barbarian, and even tames the viper, when the eye is masterful and sympathetic enough to dispel hatred and fear.
By marshalling specific details a certain indirect suasion is exercised on the mind, as nature herself, by continual checks and denials, gradually tames the human will.
Probably this finery had its origin in the policy of her guests, who had seen enough of life to know that age, which tames all other passions, never tames the passion of dress in a woman's mind.
I often reproached my dear friend and classmate, Tames Freeman Clarke, that his ceaseless labors made it impossible for his coevals to enjoy the luxury of that repose which their years demanded.
But it was the untamed enthusiasm which is the source of all great thoughts and deeds,--a beautiful delirium which age commonly tames down, and for which the cold shower-bath the world furnishes gratis proves a pretty certain cure.
The mind recognizes the laws of the rhythm which guides it: it tames the disordered forces and fixes the path they shall take, the goal towards which they shall move.
But when the music dies away, when the tames is no longer there, then the passions he has summoned forth are left roaring in their tottering cage, and they seek their prey.
I was in a melancholic mood ('sdeath, Morton, marriage tames a man as water tames mice!
The true poet, who is but the inspired thinker,= 5 =is still an Orpheus whose lyretames the savage beasts, and evokes the dead rocks to fashion themselves into palaces and stately inhabited cities.
Nothing tames a man so quick as to see his woman and childer folk hungry--eh?
A banana peeling on a mountain top tames the wilderness.
Time, that on all things lays his lenient hand, Yet tames not this; it sticks to our last sand.
Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
It is in truth the mighty power of tune, A power that every step obeys, as tides obey the moon; That threadeth with a golden clue the intricate employment, Curbs bounding strength to tranquil grace, and tames the wild enjoyment.
The arm, my lord, that tamesthe stubborn earth, And makes its bosom blossom with increase, Can also shield a man's defenceless breast.
And still she smooths thine angry tides, Tames thy wild heart, and favoring guides The sailor to the port!
What is man before beauty liberates him from free pleasure, and the serenity of form tames down the savageness of life?
Orpheus, who in hell plays on his lyre and tames the animals, is a more lucid and more perfect form of this Esthonian thunder-god who plays the bagpipes in hell.
Not as men do I fear them, but it is their strong god whotames their beasts.
It tames the strange beasts as the Hopi prayers tame the snakes," replied the boy--"and every day the beasts do work for these people.
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