"Latian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... unwearied art; The Mantuan there in sober triumph sate, Composed his posture, and his look sedate: On Homer still he fixed a reverent eye, Great without pride, in modest majesty, In living sculpture on the sides were spread The Latian wars, and haughty Turnus dead: Eliza stretched upon the funeral pyre, Aeneas bending with his aged sire: Troy flamed in burning gold, and o'er the throne Arms and the Man in golden ciphers shone. Four swans sustain a car of silver bright, ...
— MacMillan's Reading Books - Book V • Anonymous
... armies Were ranged beneath his eye, And many a banished Roman, And many a stout ally; And with a mighty following To join the muster came The Tusculan Mamilius, Prince of the Latian name. ...
— Holiday Stories for Young People • Various
... him home, Bright jewel set in lead? Oh, bear the sculptor back to Rome, And lay him with the mighty dead,— With Adonais, and the rest Of all the young and good and fair, That drew the milk of English breast, And their last sigh in Latian air! ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I., No. 3, January 1858 - A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics • Various
... how much the Latian pow'r; The promised empire in the Trojan line Alarm'd the goddess, felt her false design, But smiling said, "Who madly would refuse Such offers—and eternal warfare choose? 145 Would Fortune friendly on our ...
— The Fourth Book of Virgil's Aeneid and the Ninth Book of Voltaire's Henriad • Virgil and Voltaire
... the praise, that pointing Romans guide The Stranger's eye, with proud desire That well he note the Man, whom Crowds decide Should boldly string the Latian lyre.— Ah! when I charm, if still to charm be mine, Nymph of the warbling shell, be all ...
— Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace • Anna Seward
... makes the Soul, low things exprest In high-rais'd terms, define a Dunciad best. Books and the Man demands as much, or more, Than He who wander'd to the Latian Shore: For here (eternal Grief to Duns's soul, And B——'s thin Ghost!) the Part contains the Whole: Since in Mock-Epic none succeeds, but he Who tastes the ...
— An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad • Walter Harte |
