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Letter "D" » descent
«If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires.»
Author: Nicholas Boileau | Keywords: descent, fires, remnant, sire, sires
«GENEALOGY, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.»
«Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.»
«And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen; / Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.»
«The descent to Avernus is easy»
Author: Virgil (Author, Poet) | Keywords: Avernus, descent
«The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.»
Author: Virgil (Author, Poet) | Keywords: descent, infernal, regions, retrace
«A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.»

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