"Ara" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sensation, for instance, is that which we experience when, after studying the 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,' Gibbon tells us how the thought of writing it came to him upon the Capitol, among the ruins of dead Rome, and within hearing of the mutter of the monks of Ara Coeli, and how he finished it one night by Lake Geneva, and laid his pen down and walked forth and saw the stars above ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds
... I have little wonder for that fact! Your father will sacrifice you without a tear,—he cares but for pictures. And Mata is helpless,—Mata cannot help her babe! Ara! It ...
— The Dragon Painter • Mary McNeil Fenollosa
... to run den, as if de ole scratch was at my heels, fur he flung his cane at me so hard, dat when it struck, it stood straight up in de ground. I peeked roun' de ara winder when I got out ob reach, and he was shakin' all ober, he wus so mad, and swarin' fit to kill. Yah, yah, I fixed de ole feller dat time, Massa Pratt, I ...
— The Brother Clerks - A Tale of New-Orleans • Xariffa
... and saw three groups of French soldiers, with three or four little men in each group; he saw, also, a couple of dirty friars, and three priests very slowly beginning the side ascent to the church of the Ara Coeli. "Look down upon that countless multitude," said Mrs. Talboys, and she stretched her arms out over the half-deserted city. "They are escaping now from these trammels,—now, now,—now that I ...
— Mrs. General Talboys • Anthony Trollope
... glittering gorget dress'd, 280 And scarlet robe lapell'd upon her breast, Stern ARA frowns, the measured march assumes, Trails her long lance, and nods ...
— The Botanic Garden. Part II. - Containing The Loves of the Plants. A Poem. - With Philosophical Notes. • Erasmus Darwin
... and heard of our adventures, he said that he would go at night and capture the young macaws, when the parents would not attempt to defend them; and that he should probably, at the same time, be able to catch some of the older birds. He had brought with him an ara parrot, as he called it, which, young as it was, had already grown to a considerable size. Though it had not yet obtained its full plumage, its colours were very beautiful. Its body was of a flaming scarlet, while the wings were red, yellow, blue, and green; its tail, ...
— The Wanderers - Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco • W.H.G. Kingston
... demolish, the street became narrower, and one entered into cold, damp shade. But a moment afterwards, before the facade of the Gesu, when the square was reached, the sun again appeared, dazzling, throwing golden sheets of light around; whilst afar off at the end of the Via di Ara Coeli, steeped in shadow, a glimpse could be caught ...
— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola
... Anian droes yn iawn ei drych; Y dymer ydoedd dwymyn Dda'i yn ei lle,—toddai'n llyn. Gwelent ei drwg—amlwg oedd, A'u llid—mor fyrbwyll ydoedd; Ust! tawelynt drwyddynt draw, O dawelwch, doi wylaw. 'Nawr o'u dwrn yn ara' deg Parai gwir gwymp i'r garreg; Trwst y main, a'r ubain rhwydd Dwys, a dorrai'r distawrwydd. Yna'r gynulleidfa'n llon Ddychwelent—(gwedd a chalon Eto'n awr yn gytun oedd,) ...
— Gwaith Alun • Alun
... Ara! but why does he stay behind? Lilli burlero, bullen a-la. Ho! by my shoul 'tis a Protestant wind: Lilli ...
— From John O'Groats to Land's End • Robert Naylor and John Naylor
... In the midst of the agitation excited in the crowd by this new report a solemn chanting was heard; it proceeded from a procession, led by the Cardinal Camerlengo, with the object of obtaining from Heaven the speedy election of a pope: this procession, starting from the church of Ara Coeli at the Capitol, was to make stations before the principal Madannas and the most frequented churches. As soon as the silver crucifix was perceived which went in front, the most profound silence prevailed, ...
— Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... to have made the altar upon which the Gods were sworn, when the Titans rebelled against Jupiter. Scholiast upon Aratus. p. 52. In memorial of this altar an Asterism was formed in the Sphere, denominated [Greek: bomos], ara. ...
— A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) • Jacob Bryant
... the true reading here, it cannot mean, "put off to another time," as Stein translates it; for the form of the sentence proves that it is to be taken as a question, co-ordinate with that which follows: {peri men khores ara ou polles khreon esti umeas makhas anaballesthai, parekhon de tes Asies arkhein allo ti airesesthe}; the first clause being in sense subordinate ...
— The History Of Herodotus - Volume 2 (of 2) • Herodotus
... "Britannic triumph" was celebrated on a scale of exceptional magnificence. In addition to the usual display, he gave his people the unique spectacle of their Emperor climbing the ascent to the Capitol not in his triumphal car, nor even on foot, but on his knees (as pilgrims yet mount the steps of the Ara Coeli), in token of special gratitude to the gods for so signal an extension of the glory and the Empire of Rome. In the gladiatorial shows which followed, he presided in full uniform [paludatus],[141] with his son (whose name, like his own, a Senatus consultum had declared to be Britannicus)[142] ...
— Early Britain—Roman Britain • Edward Conybeare
... caer krysgrwydyat Aer cret ty na thaer aer vlodyat Un ara ae leissyar argatwyt Adar brwydryat Syll o virein neus adrawd a vo mwy O damweinnyeit llwy Od amluch lliuanat Neus adrawd a vo mwy Enawr blygeint Na ...
— Y Gododin - A Poem on the Battle of Cattraeth • Aneurin |
