162 Metaphors for thou

But compare Virgil's "Tantaene animis celestibus irae?" with Milton's "Evil, be thou my good!"

Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable Actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy Ideal; work it out therefrom, and working, live, be free.

Oh, be thou my happiness in my dreams! Munich, November 9, 1809.

O thou foremost of all deities, extend to me thy grace, show me thy mercy, and be thou the source of blessings to me.

" "Thou art equivocating; 'twill be the worse for thee, that thou triflest with the Councilwho are these agents?"

hadst thou but ruled with moderation when thou hadst gained, with masterly manoeuvre, the throne of the air; hadst thou reserved thy forces against surprise, and not, with prodigal profuseness, lavished them on thy harmless subjects, thou hadst still been monarch of the sea and air; all would have blessed thee as the restorer of peace, and as the deliverer of the ocean from western despotism.

Would'st thou be ever in thy wives Syntaxis?

"I and another, is as much as (we) the first Person Plural; Thou and another, is as much as (ye) the second Person Plural; He, she, or it, and another, is as much as (they) the third Person Plural.

Thou speakest to us the language of the gods, but thou are only an impure beast.

Gracious may'st thou be, Adonis, now: pour new-year's blessings down!

She tauld thee weel thou was a skellum, A blethering, blustering, drunken blellum, That frae November till October Ae market-day thou was nae sober; That ilka melder wi'

May thou and I, dear friend-soul, in whatsoever land thou be, may thou

Courteous is she, tho' thou be weak Evoke from Heaven as thick as manna Joy after joy on Grace Joanna: On Fornham's Glebe and Pasture land A blessing pray.

Once more, though thou be a barbarian, born at Tontonteac, a villain, a slave, a Saldanian Negro, or a rude Virginian in Dasamonquepec, he a French monsieur, a Spanish don, a signor of Italy, I care not how descended, of what family, of what order, baron, count, prince, if thou be well qualified, and he not, but a degenerate Neoptolemus, I tell thee in a word, thou art a man, and he is a beast.

On that occasion thou wilt have a sight of him, clad in a sable deerskin, and wearing his hair in the form of a matted mass.' "Yudhishthira said, 'Thou hast been a follower of the mighty Rama, Jamadagni's son; thou must, therefore, have been the eye-witness of all the deeds achieved by him in former days.

Thou who on earth wast named Nicholas There be dull clods who doubt thy magic power To tour the sleeping world in half-an-hour, And pop down all the chimneys as you pass With woolly lambs and dolls of frabjous size For grubby hands and wonder-laden eyes.

But go, if thou wiltI am no longer the Senate's.

ther thou lyest; thou were never matched of none earthly knights hands; thou were the truest freende to thy lover that ever bestrood horse; and thou were the kindest man that ever strooke with sword; and thou were the sternest knight to thy mortall foe that ever put spere in the rest."

And there it was, in our former birth, that thou and I were boy and girl.

Prythee, tell me, hast not thou been a whoremaster? HAR.

Thou, Earth, hast been my mother, and when these pangs are o'er,

Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!

" "Thou, at least, must be an exception!"

A rebel art thou, and no warrior of the righteous God; wheel and gallows are thy goal on earthgallows and, in the life to come, damnation which is ordained for crime and godlessness.

Knowest thou not moreover, that man is the woman's sun; woman is the man's earth?How dreary, how desolate, the earth, that the suns shines not upon!

162 Metaphors for  thou