virgin quotes

Pange, lingua, gloriosi Corporis mysterium, Sanguinisque pretiosi, Quem in mundi pretium Fructus ventris generosi Rex effudit gentium. Now, my tongue, the mystery telling Of the glorious Body sing, And the Blood, all price excelling, Which the Gentiles' Lord and King, In aVirgin's womb once dwelling, Shed for this world's ransoming.

-Aquinas, StThomas
  Pange Lingua Gloriosi, known as the Corpus Christi hymn (translated by J M Neale et al).

Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 7:14.

Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which wasspoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is,God with us.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew1:22^3

Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire And the pale virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go.

-Blake,William
  Songs of Experience,'Ah! Sunflower'.

I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth: And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary, Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was crucified, dead, and buried: He descended into hell;The third day he rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost;The holy Catholick Church;The Communion of Saints;The Forgiveness of sins;The Resurrection of the body, And the life everlasting. Amen.

-Book of Common Prayer
Morning Prayer,  Apostle's Creed.

So though a virgin, yet a bride To every Grace, she justified A chaste polygamy, and died.

-Carew,Thomas
  'Inscription on the Tomb of Lady Mary Wentworth'.

Sometimes when I look at my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.'

-Carter, Lillian
  In Woman magazine, 9  Apr.

Now we lament one Who danced on a plume of words, Sang with a fountain's panache, Dazzled like slate roofs in sun After rain, was flighty as birds And alone as a mountain ash. The ribald, inspired urchin Leaning over the lip Of his world, as over a rock pool Or a lucky dip, Found everything brilliant and virgin.

-Day-Lewis, Cecil
  'In Memory of Dylan Thomas'.

S'apercevoir que sa me'  re est vierge.öLes 36 situations dramatiques; trente-septie'  me situation. The thirty-seventh dramatic situation out of 36:To become aware that one's mother is a virgin.

-Jarry, Alfred
  L'Amour absolu, pt.3, e¤  pigraphe.

Le vierge, le vivace et le bel aujourd'hui. The virgin, the vibrant and the beautiful today.

-Mallarme¤  , Ste¤  phane
Plusieurs Sonnets, no.1.

Virgin me no virgins! I must have you lose that name, or you lose me.

-Massinger, Philip
  A New Way to Pay Old Debts, act 3, sc.2.

   But see! theVirgin blessed Hath laid her Babe to rest. Time is our tedious song should here have ending.

-Milton,John
  'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity','The Hymn', stanza 27.

Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on: but†a wicked race of deceivers†took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely formintoathousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled bodyof Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb, still as they could find them.We have not yet found them all†nor ever shall do, till her Master's second coming; he shall bring together every joint and member, and shall mould them into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection.

-Milton,John
  Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.

Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If it seems so it is because when you look backward things that happened years apart are telescoped together, and because very few of your memories come to you genuinely virgin.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair
  Inside the Whale,'My Country Right or Left'.

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