Citations:curse

English citations of curse

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• 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress:

  The words were thus pronounced: ‘As many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.’ [Gal.

  I believe that Christ died for sinners, and that I shall be justified before God from the curse, through his gracious acceptance of my obedience to his law.

• 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein:

  Have a care; I will work at your destruction, nor finish until I desolate your heart, so that you shall curse the hour of your birth."

  I had before been moved by the sophisms of the being I had created; I had been struck senseless by his fiendish threats; but now, for the first time, the wickedness of my promise burst upon me; I shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their pest, whose selfishness had not hesitated to buy its own peace at the price, perhaps, of the existence of the whole human race.

• 1942, Robert Frost, “The Lesson for Today”, in A Witness Tree:

  Yes, yes, of course. We have the same convention.
  The groundwork of all faith is human woe.
  It was well worth preliminary mention.
  There’s nothing but injustice to be had,
  No choice is left a poet, you might add,
  But how to take the curse, tragic or comic.