"Walhalla" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Saw them sufficient. Fool and wise, I fear This curse, and scorn it. But a little light!— And on it falls the shadow of the priest; Heaven yield us more! for better, Woden, all Our cancell'd warrior-gods, our grim Walhalla, Eternal war, than that the Saints at peace The Holiest of our Holiest one should be This William's fellow-tricksters;—better die Than credit this, for death is death, or else Lifts us beyond the lie. Kiss me—thou art not A holy ...
— Queen Mary and Harold • Alfred Lord Tennyson
... dear brother here departed,' he substituted the word 'father' for 'brother,' and the vast multitude burst into tears. It remained for the present generation to do justice to his memory by giving a place in our Christian Walhalla among the great dead to one who was certainly among ...
— The English Church in the Eighteenth Century • Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton
... she took great pleasure in Tintagel. In the first place, she found that the cove was exactly, almost identically the same as the Walhalla scene in Walkuere; in the second place, Tristan was here, in the tragic country filled with the flowers of a late Cornish summer, an everlasting reality; in the third place, it was a sea of marvellous, ...
— The Trespasser • D.H. Lawrence |
