"Dura" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... orchestras (a matter which I broached long ago) again came under discussion, and possibly this March an attempt will be made to set them going. Meanwhile let us look after our cordial [Magen-Starkung] "mentre che il danno e la vergogna dura," ["Whilst prejudice and shame last."] as Michael ...
— Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 1, "From Paris to Rome: - Years of Travel as a Virtuoso" • Franz Liszt; Letters assembled by La Mara and translated
... scholae. Bis ternos, illo me conducente, per annos Profeci, et geminam contulit unus opem; Ars et amor, mens atque manus certare solebant, Nec lassata illi mensue, manusue fuit. Hinc qualem cernis crevisse: sed ut mea certus Tempora cognoscas, dura mere, scias. Vixi, divisos cum fregerat haeresis Anglos Inter Tysiphonas presbyteri et populi. His primum miseris per am[oe]na furentibus arva Prostravit sanctam vilis avena rosam, Turbarunt fontes, et fusis pax perit undis, Moestaque coelestes obruit ...
— Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II • Henry Vaughan
... cielo i vostri movimenti inizia; Non dico tutti; ma posto ch' io 'l dica Lume v' e dato a bene ed a malizia, E libero voler che, se fatica Nelle prime battaglie col ciel dura, Poi vince tutto ...
— Atlantic Monthly Vol. 3, No. 16, February, 1859 • Various
... execution, the flowers are by no means equal to those on tables and other small works in Pietra dura at Florence. It is the taste displayed in outline and application of this ornament, combined with the lightness and simplicity of the building, which gives it an advantage so prodigious over the gloomy ...
— Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet • by William Henry Knight
... lang-nebbit word! Hurrah for the erudite phrase, That in Dura Den shall be heard, That ...
— The Scarlet Gown - being verses by a St. Andrews Man • R. F. Murray
... cerebrospinal axis within the cranium, which may be divided into four parts—the medulla oblongata, the cerebellum, the pons Varolii, and the cerebrum—and it is covered by three membranes, called the meninges. The outer of these membranes, the dura mater, is a thick, white, fibrous membrane which lines the cavity of the cranium, forming the internal periosteum of the bones; it is continuous with the spinal cord to the extremity of the canal. The second, the arachnoid, is a delicate serous membrane, ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture
... So I spent the evening as pleasantly as I well could, considering I am so soon to leave my own house, and go like a stranger to the town of which I have been so long a citizen, and leave my wife lingering, without prospect of recovery, under the charge of two poor girls. Talia cogit dura necessitas. ...
— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott
... and a half of water were found in the ventricles of the brain, and the vessels of the dura ...
— An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses - With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases • William Withering
... upon the upper surface: its cavity is capacious, and there is a boney process projecting from the cranium, in place of the falx or dura mater. This Mr. Home believes is not the case in ...
— An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 2 • David Collins
... The Tibia Dura is another of Mr. Hope-Jones' inventions. It is an open wood pipe of peculiar shape, wider at the top than the bottom, and described by Wedgwood as of "bright, ...
— The Recent Revolution in Organ Building - Being an Account of Modern Developments • George Laing Miller
... at the inner face of the right hemisphere. We observe that it has convolutions, just like the exterior surface, which do not join across the median line, but are separated from those of the left hemisphere by a firm membrane (an extension of the dura mater or principal investing membrane) called the falx, which is removed, ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, April 1887 - Volume 1, Number 3 • Various
... of two hemispheres joined by a central mass. On its under surface is a depression which receives the medulla oblongata. The cerebellum is separated from the cerebrum by a horizontal partition of membrane, a portion of the dura mater. In some animals, as in the cat, this partition is ...
— A Practical Physiology • Albert F. Blaisdell |
