"Lxxxiv" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... [Sidenote: FRAG. LXXXIV] (Par.) Gracchus had a disposition like his brother; only the latter drifted from excellence into ambition and then to baseness whereas this man was naturally intractable and played the rogue voluntarily and ...
— Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) • Cassius Dio
... not conscious art in representing the hospitable face of the castle of Macbeth, bearing on it a homely welcome in the multitude of the nests of the temple-haunting martlet (Psalm lxxxiv. 3), just as Lady Macbeth, the fiend-soul of the house, steps from the door, like the speech of the building, with her falsely smiled welcome? Is there not observance ...
— A Dish Of Orts • George MacDonald |
