Bride Quotes. C.N. Douglas, comp. 1917. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical

C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Bride


New dressed and blooming as a bridal maid. Walter Harte.	1
O, happy youth! for whom thy fate reserved so fair a bride. Dryden.	2
Evasive of the bridal day, she gives fond hopes to all, and all with hope deceives. Pope.	3
A thin aerial veil is drawn o’er beauty’s face, seeming to hide, more sweetly shows the blushing bride. Crashaw.	4
The man who builds and wants wherewith to pay, provides a home from which to run away. Young.	5
The bride, lovely herself, and lovely by her side a bevy of bright nymphs, with sober grace came glittering like a star, and took her place. Dryden.	6
In ancient Bœotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token that they would never again be needed. T. W. Higginson.	7
He laid him down and slept, and from his side a woman in her magic beauty rose; dazzled and charmed, he called that woman “bride,” and his first sleep became his last repose. Besser.	8
Up, up, fair bride! and call thy stars from out their several boxes; take thy rubies, pearls, and diamonds forth, and make thyself a constellation of them all. Donne.	9