"World-wide" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... what with my whole world-wide wandering, What with my search drawn out thro' years, my hope 20 Dwindled into a ghost not fit to cope With that obstreperous joy success would bring, I hardly tried now to rebuke the spring My heart made, finding failure ...
— Dramatic Romances • Robert Browning
... This was Peter Apian. He was one of the great mathematical and astronomical scholars of the time. His brilliant abilities had made him the astronomical teacher of the Emperor Charles V. His work on geography had brought him a world-wide reputation; his work on astronomy brought him a patent of nobility; his improvements in mathematical processes and astronomical instruments brought him the praise of Kepler and a place in the history of ...
— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White
... to certain of the shell-fish of Phoenicia a great celebrity attaches. The purple dye which gave to the textile fabrics of the Phoenicians a world-wide reputation was prepared from certain shell-fish which abounded upon their coast. Four existing species have been regarded as more or less employed in the manufacture, and it seems to be certain, at any rate, that the Phoenicians derived the dye from more shell-fish than one. The four are the ...
— History of Phoenicia • George Rawlinson
... popularizer, perhaps, in English literature. He popularized William Morris, both his domestic interiors and his Utopias, in the aesthetic lectures and in The Soul of Man under Socialism—a wonderful pamphlet, the secret of the world-wide fame of which Mr. Ransome curiously misses. He popularized the cloistral aestheticism of Pater and the cultural egoism of Goethe in Intentions and elsewhere. In Salome he popularized the gorgeous processionals of ornamental ...
— The Art of Letters • Robert Lynd
... in a field, and strike my roots deep down like one of those trees, than be a homeless nomad with a world-wide ambition," answered Rorie. "I have ...
— Vixen, Volume I. • M. E. Braddon
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