Darkling Plain

Famous quotes containing the words darkling plain, darkling and/or plain:

    “And we are here as on a darkling plain
    Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
    Where ignorant armies clash by night.”
    —Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

    “O sun,
    Burn the great sphere thou mov’st in! darkling stand
    The varying shore o’ th’ world!”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “O, pluck was he to the backbone and clear grit through and through;
    Boasted and bragged like a trooper; but the big words wouldn’t do;
    The boy was dying, sir, dying, as plain as plain could be,
    Worn out by his ride with Morgan up from the Tennessee.”
    —Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840–1894)