"Libra" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in this History, if nowhere else. It caught up the Prussian-English Double-Marriage; launched it into the huge tide of Imperial Spectre Politics, into the awful swaggings and swayings of the Terrestrial LIBRA in general; and nearly broke the heart of several Royal persons; of a memorable Crown-Prince, among others. Which last is now, pretty much, its sole claim to be ever mentioned again by mankind. As there was no performance, nor an intention of any, in ...
— History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Volume V. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle
... Bertha was fascinated; that, blushing, she laughed back to him, and was nothing offended when, at his first sight of her, he rippled out at once into "Ahaha, du libra Ogostine." ...
— In the Arena - Stories of Political Life • Booth Tarkington
... indigencia, a elevar la idea de la moralidad publica. Ella debe luchar y sufrir, en medio de la sociedad en que vive por cuanto hay de femenino en la vida para calmar con un bello gesto de piedad la furiosa contienda que se libra por la existencia, y durar con el magico esplendor de su carinosa mirada la noche eterna del humano dolor. La patria necesita no solo la fuerza de los hombres, sino tambien la piedad, la caridad de las mujeres; no solo requiere heroes, sino tambien heroinas. Y las ...
— The Woman and the Right to Vote • Rafael Palma
... the Scales." The Virgin (Virgo) and the Scales (Libra) are two constellations known to the ancients. A person born while these constellations were to be seen in the sky (from near the end of August to near the end of October) was said to be born under them and was believed to have certain characteristics. ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 - The Guide • Charles Herbert Sylvester
... sun so stationed, as when first His early radiance quivers on the heights, Where streamed his Maker's blood; while Libra hangs Above Hesperian Ebro; and new fires, Meridian, flash on Ganges' yellow tide. So day was sinking, when the angel of God Appeared before us. Joy was in his mien. Forth of the flame he stood upon the brink; And with a voice, whose lively clearness far Surpassed our ...
— The World's Best Poetry Volume IV. • Bliss Carman |
