10 LIBRI IN INGLESE ASSOCIATI CON «RESPITELESS»
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And be it resolved, that labour respiteless Befits not man, being brute drudgery ;
Changing to beastliness his nature, born A little lower than the angels are : And
in this rule the labourer hath right Of leisure and appliance to enjoy His life, nor ...
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The satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius ...
What then if he has achieved his purpose ? A respiteless anxiety is his : that
ceases not, even at his hours of meals : while his jaws are parched as though
with fever, and the food he loathes swells3 between his teeth. All wines4 the
miserable ...
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The Oxford and Cambridge review
... itself to men bereft of power and invested merely with their own deservings?
when it follows them into adversity, and, like the coat of Hercules, clings to them
amid torture and persecution, with pauseless, respiteless, pitiless perseverance?
They should abandon me forthwith, these miserable scourging ants and take a
rest— now and forever from their ceaseless coursing and respiteless spinning
through crimson fields collecting prickly ouchie burrs. Try to trap them, try to tame
...
Marred byhunger, by uncaredfor sickness, by respiteless fear or sudden terror, by
impotent hate or outraged love, they are gaunt and deadly tired; are listless,
andyet quick to puerileor senile passion,whether of friendliness or loathing,
impulsive ...
William Olaf Stapledon, 2007
... to the foreign tyrant, are now too familiar with harshness, are unserene, are
tinder to every spark. Marred by hunger, by uncared-for sickness, by respiteless
fear or sudden terror, by impotent hai:e or outraged love, OKA III INTO Mil'; 211.
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Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 6: 1874-1875
So it is some little comfort to know that if you lose the home you will save at least
save yourself from that other distress — a distress so exquisite, so respiteless, so
relentless, that it stands out by itself, among tortures of the mind, like cancer ...
Mark Twain, Michael B. Frank, Harriet Elinor Smith, 2002
In this sonnet the poet first compares the respiteless and fast passing away of
time ('minutes hasten') with the racing of waves to the sea's shingled shore: "Like
as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,/So do our minutes hasten to their
...
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Collected Literary Essays: Classical and Modern
But when the crowded ring began to close Towards him, respiteless, and taxed
his breath, Down from the altar-step the gallant knight Leaped, as he leaped
upon the foe in Troy, The victim turned assailant. And they tumed, Like doves that
see ...
A. W. Verrall, M. A. Bayfield, J. D. Duff, 2012
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Dynamics of Detour: Codes of Indirection in Montaigne, ...
Nowhere, perhaps, is there more elaborately ensconsed a network of slithery,
halting rhetoric, averred to enlighten, but a priori-ly doomed to alienate.7 And this
power-packed disjunction, like the respiteless oscillation of the Essais and the ...
