earthly joys

For a young woman this dream signals the realization of the highest earthly joys.

"I don't dare go out," said Anne, in the tone of a martyr relinquishing all earthly joys.

He is the subject of the novel Earthly Joys, by Philippa Gregory.

The phrase "as a dream doth flatter" correlates strongly with the Petrarchan view that earthly joys are briefly.

By old tradition those who have fasted will feel uplifted, their spirituality reinforced by self-restraint and denial of earthly joys.

The Duke's assassination features in Philippa Gregory's novel Earthly Joys.

Chapter 1 (Earthly Joys and Sorrows) is about the meaning of the experiences we have on Earth, both good and bad.

No, she thought, if he could see you now he would turn away, his eyes drawn to the youthful skin and the earthly joys of girls like Olympias.

Earthly joys and hopes and sorrows Break like ripples on the strand Of the deep and solemn river Where her willing feet now stand.

Rome does right well to censure all the vain Talk of Jansenius, and of them who preach That earthly joys are damnable!

In "Earthly Joys," Philippa Gregory returns to the English historical setting well known to readers of her Wideacre trilogy.

And above the garish lights of earthly joys and the dim reek of earthly wretchedness, he sees the solemn firmament that veils his race's destiny.

EARTHLY JOYS By Philippa Gregory.

From this subject she made a short digression to the instability of human pleasures and the uncertainty of their duration, which led her to observe that all earthly Joys must be imperfect.

Nyrop adds that the love kiss, "rich in promise, bestows an intoxicating feeling of infinite happiness, courage, and youth, and therefore surpasses all other earthly joys in sublimity.

It is Petrarch's first sonnet to his unyielding love Laura: In my heart I feel ashamed - alas, That nought but shame my vanities have bred, And penance, and the knowledge of clear mind That earthly joys are dreams that swiftly pass.

Two novels about a gardening family are set during the English Civil War: Earthly Joys and Virgin Earth, while she has in addition written contemporary fiction - Perfectly Correct, Mrs Hartley And The Growth Centre, The Little House and Zelda's Cut.

In Arturo Pérez-Reverte's novel, El capitán Alatriste, Buckingham appears briefly while on his expedition to Spain in 1623 with Charles I. He is also a central character in novels by Philippa Gregory, Earthly Joys, and Evelyn Anthony, Charles, The King.