See, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing will hurt you. ...Nevertheless, do not rejoice at this, that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My weary limbs are scarcely stretched for repose, before red dawn peeps into my chamber window, and the birds in the whispering le...aves over the roof, apprise me by their sweetest notes that another day of toil awaits me. I arise, the harness is hastily adjusted and once more I step upon the tread-mill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For wheresoe'er I turn my ravished eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise,... Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Shake off your heavy trance, and leap into a dance,... Such as no mortals use to tread, fit only for Apollo To play to, for the Moon to lead, And all the Stars to follow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight,... In the long way that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Everyone Tarrou set eyes on had that vacant gaze, and was visibly suffering from the complete break with all that life had meant t...o him. And since they could not be thinking of their death all the time, they thought of nothing... "For really to think about someone means thinking about that person every minute of the day, without letting one's thoughts be diverted by anything; by meals, by a fly that settles on someone's cheek, by household duties, or by a sudden itch somewhere. But there are always flies and itches. That's why life is difficult to live."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He has no resolution, he shrinks from pain or labour in any of its shapes. His very attitude bespeaks this: he never straightens h...is knee joints, he stoops with his fat ill- shapen shoulders, and in walking he does not tread but shovel and slide.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »