And the Raven, never flitting.
Still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas
Just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming
Of a demon's that is dreaming,
And the lamplight over him streaming
Throws his shadow on the floor.
And my soul from out that shadow,
That lies floating on the floor,
Shall be lifted - nevermore. [ Poe ]
From seeming evil still educing good. [ Thomson ]
When better cherries are not to be had.
We needs must take the seeming best of bad. [ Daniel ]
A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,
Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty. [ William Shakespeare, The Taming Of The Shrew ]
Ornament is but the gilded shore
To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf
Veiling an Indian; beauty, in a word.
The seeming truth which cunning times put on
To entrap the wisest. [ William Shakespeare ]
The hour conceal'd and so remote the fear,
Death still draws nearer, never seeming near. [ Pope ]
His eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming. [ Poe ]
It is difficult to descend with grace without seeming to fall. [ Blair ]
Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth. [ Tupper ]
The steps of faith fall on the seeming void, and find the rock beneath. [ Whittier ]
Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it. [ Shakespeare ]
A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. [ Shenstone ]
Bid that welcome which comes to punish us, and we punish it, seeming to bear it lightly. [ William Shakespeare ]
Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near. [ Webster ]
Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise. [ Chapin ]
A thin aerial veil is drawn over beauty's face, seeming to hide, more sweetly shows the blushing bride. [ Crashaw ]
Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance, and make a seeming impossibility give way. [ Jeremy Collier ]
O form! how oft dost thou with thy case, thy habit, wrench awe from fools, and tie the wiser souls to thy false seeming! [ William Shakespeare ]
O place! O form, how often dost thou with thy case, thy habit, wrench awe from fools, and tie the wiser souls to thy false seeming! [ William Shakespeare ]
You should not only have attention to everything, but a quickness of attention, so as to observe at once all the people in the room - their motions, their looks and their words - and yet without staring at them and seeming to be an observer. [ Chesterfield ]
I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own. [ Thackeray ]