"Unbuilt" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hovels covered with ragged placards, the grimy unfinished walls, the general air of a compromise between a gypsy camp, the booths of a country fair, and the temporary structures that we in Paris build round about public monuments that remain unbuilt; the grotesque aspect of the mart as a whole was in keeping with the seething traffic of various kinds carried on within it; for here in this shameless, unblushing haunt, amid wild mirth and a babel of talk, an immense amount of business was transacted ...
— Lost Illusions • Honore De Balzac
... of Jehovah's throne? A light is breaking on my mental eye; Visions of glory in succession rise And fill the airy palace of the soul. I see afar the promised land. An arch Of golden radiance canopies the gates Of that celestial city—Beautiful! Unbuilt by hands—the New Jerusalem— And holy to the Lord; the happy home Of pilgrims, who to reach that heavenly shrine Sojourned as strangers on this goodly earth, Counting all things but loss—yea, life itself— To win an entrance ...
— Enthusiasm and Other Poems • Susanna Moodie |
