pale quotes

Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget The pale, unripened beauties of the north.

-Addison,Joseph
  Cato, act1, sc.4, l.134^5.

He kissed the hand and by the hand led And to his mother brought, Who in sorrow pale, through the lonely dale, Her little boy weeping sought.

-Blake,William
  Songs of Innocence,'The Little Boy Found'.

It is upon those who say that it is necessary to exclude forty-nine fiftieths of the working classes [from the vote] toshowcause, and Iventuretosay that every manwho is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger, is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution.

-Gladstone,W(illiam) E(wart)
  House of Commons,11 May.

In pale contented sort of discontent.

-Keats,John
  Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems, 'Lamia', pt.2, l.135.

Se comprende muy bien que el advenimiento del cinemato¤  grafo haya sido para m |¤ el comienzo de un nueva era, por la cual cuento las noches sucesivas en que he salido mareado y pa¤  lido del cine, porque he dejado mi corazo¤  n†en la pantalla que impregno¤   por tres cuartos de hora el encanto de BrownieVernon. It is easy to understand that, for me, cinema was the beginning of a newera which marked my nights, oneafter the other, as I left the theatre, dizzyand pale after leaving my heart on thescreen†on that screen that for forty-five minutes was impregnated by BrownieVernon's charm.

-Quiroga, Horacio
Anaconda,'Miss Dorothy Phillips, mi esposa' ('Miss Dorothy Phillips, MyWife').

Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth,ö And ever-changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy?

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
'To the Moon' (published1824).

   The death of Nelson was felt in England as something more than a public calamity; men started at the intelligence, and turned pale, as if they had heard of the loss of a dear friend.

-Southey, Robert
  The Life of Nelson, ch.9.

   Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail?

-Suckling, SirJohn
  Aglaura, act 4, sc.1,'Song'.

Pale, beyond porch and portal, Crowned with calm leaves, she stands Who gathers all things mortal With cold immortal hands.

-Swinburne, Algernon Charles
  Poems and Ballads,'The Garden of Proserpine'.

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