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10 Quotes for 'Footsteps' in the Database.
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Footsteps Quotes
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The tread
Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher
Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause,
And hears them never pause, but pass and die.
Author: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. III)
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There scatter'd oft the earliest of ye Year
By Hands unseen are showers of Vi'lets found;
The Redbreast loves to build and warble there,
And little Footsteps lightly print the ground.
Author: Thomas Gray
Source: Elegy in a Country Churchyard, his manuscript
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The footsteps are terrifying, all coming towards you and none
going back again.
[Lat., Vestigia terrent
Omnia te adversum spectantia, nulla retrorsum.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Epistles (bk. I, 1, 74)
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And so to tread
As if the wind, not she, did walk;
Nor prest a flower, nor bow'd a stalk.
Author: Ben Jonson
Source: Masques--The Vision of Delight
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Her treading would not bend a blade of grass,
Or shake the downy blow-ball from his stalk!
Author: Ben Jonson
Source: The Sad Shepherd
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A foot more light, a step more true,
Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew.
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Source: The Lady of the Lake (canto I, st. 18)
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The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light; . . .
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Venus and Adonis (l. 1,028)
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Steps with a tender foot, light as on air,
The lovely, lordly creature floated on.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Source: Princess (VI, l. 72)
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But I will trace the footsteps of the chief events.
[Lat., Sed summa sequar fastigia rerum.]
Author: Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil)
Source: The Aeneid (I, 342)
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Methought I say the footsteps of a throne.
- William Wordsworth,
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: Miscellaneous Sonnets--Methought I Saw the Footsteps of a Throne
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