"Bliss" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... history alike involve this principle. The fictions of the poets respecting the different ages of the world coincide with Scripture facts. The first, or Golden Age, is described as a paradisiacal state, feebly representing the bliss of the first pair in Eden, Gen. ii. And the second, or Iron Age, described in the fiction of Pandora and her fatal box of evils, which overspread the earth, is in accordance with the history of the introduction of evil into the world, Gen. iii. The celebrated Vossius shows, with great ingenuity, ...
— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy
... vicinity of Hamilton, embowered as it is in the natural forest. Near it, however, is a vast swamp, in which is Coot's Paradise, so named, it is said, from a gentleman, who was fond of duck-shooting, or perhaps from the coot or water-hen being there in bliss. ...
— Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 • Richard Henry Bonnycastle
... Chicagoan repeats that formula, no matter how much he roams. He seems to travel merely to experience the bliss of ...
— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick
... Oh, Thorold, you must never tempt me thus! To die here in this chamber by that sword Would seem like punishment: so should I glide, Like an arch-cheat, into extremest bliss! 'Twere easily arranged for me: but you— What would ...
— A Blot In The 'Scutcheon • Robert Browning
... lit in the shrine of Venus the candles of the altar of the Virgin, when a villainous hand that of Jesuitry, issuing from the darkness, clapped over them the snuffer and carried his Happiness off. Here was a love divine, the promised bliss of which was ...
— The Book of Khalid • Ameen Rihani
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