| 10 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.”
George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Quotes 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.”
Thomas Gray Quotes 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.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes 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.”
Ben Jonson Quotes 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!”
Ben Jonson Quotes 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.”
Sir Walter Scott Quotes Source: The Lady of the Lake (canto I, st. 18)
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“The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light; . . .”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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.”
Lord Alfred Tennyson Quotes 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.]”
Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil) Quotes Source: The Aeneid (I, 342)
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“Methought I say the footsteps of a throne.
- William Wordsworth,”
William Wordsworth Quotes Source: Miscellaneous Sonnets--Methought I Saw the Footsteps of a Throne
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