"Puer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... disparibus quas temperat apta cicutis: Saltabant Satyri informes, nec murmure laeto Capripedes potuere diu se avertere Fauni; Damaetasque modos nostros longaevus amabat. Jamque, relicta tibi, quantum mutata videntur Rura—relicta tibi, cui non spes ulla regressus! Te sylvae, teque antra, puer, deserta ferarum, Incultis obducta thymis ac vite sequaci, Decessisse gemunt; gemitusque reverberat Echo. Non salices, non glauca ergo coryleta videbo Molles ad numeros laetum motare cacumen:- Quale rosis scabies; quam formidabile vermis Depulso jam lacte gregi, dum tondet ...
— Verses and Translations • C. S. C.
... St. Lawrence, confessing, however, his ignorance of the etymology: "Porro de Etymologia vocis Canada nihil satis certe potui comperire; priscam quidem esse, constat ex eo, quod illam ante annos prope sexaginta passim usurpari audiebam puer." ...
— The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) • George Warburton
... violently that he sank into the hay as into water; at last he fell sound asleep. Finally a cool breeze blew in his eyes, when the creaking doors of the stable were opened with a crash; and the Bernardine, Father Robak, came in with his belt of knotted cord, calling out, "Surge, puer!" and plying jocosely over his ...
— Pan Tadeusz • Adam Mickiewicz
... the 'Spectator') as this, and finding the remainder not to his taste, he concludes that he has discovered the kernel and that the rest can be cast aside. Practice alone makes perfect: macte nova virtute, puer, sic itur ...
— The Book-Hunter at Home • P. B. M. Allan
... capta est Leonilla sinistro, Et potis est forma vincere uterque Deos. Blande puer, lumen, quod habes concede puellae, Sic tu caecus Amor, sic ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 76, April 12, 1851 • Various
... every form of vice, natural and unnatural. He was bold, clever, unprincipled, and unscrupulous, with a slender diminutive figure and a delicate woman's face. His name was Clodius Pulcher. Cicero played upon it and called him Pulchellus Puer, "the pretty boy." Between this promising young man and Caesar's wife Pompeia there had sprung up an acquaintance, which Clodius was anxious to press to further extremes. Pompeia was difficult of access, her mother-in-law Aurelia keeping a strict watch over ...
— Caesar: A Sketch • James Anthony Froude
... vendicaverat et possiderat[44] coronam Angliae tot annis, respondere solebat, Pater meus rex fuerat Angliae[45] pacifice, coronam Angliae possidens per totum regni sui tempus. Et suus pater, avus meus, ejusdem regni rex fuit. Et ego puer, quasi in cunabilis[46] [B IV a] pacifice, et sine omni interruptione coronatus approbatus fueram rex a toto regno, coronam Angliae gerens quasi per XL. annos, singulis mihi dominis homagium regium facientibus, et fidem michi praestantibus ...
— Henry the Sixth - A Reprint of John Blacman's Memoir with Translation and Notes • John Blacman
... reads your good-for-nothing libel which you call a "biography" with your impudent caricatures of a man who was a better-looking fellow than yourself, I 'll bet you ten to one, a man whom his Latin tutor called fommosus puer when he was only a freshman? If that's what it means to make a reputation,—to leave your character and your person, and the good name of your sainted relatives, and all you were, and all you had and thought and felt, so far ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
... [10] Boke of Keruynge and Boke of Curtasye, with Notes [11] Booke of Demeanor and following shorter selections [12] The Babees Book and following shorter selections [13] Parallel texts of The Little Children's Boke and Stans Puer ad Mensam [14] General Index (excluding Postscript) [15] Postscript "added after the Index had been printed" [16] Collected Sidenotes (section added by transcriber: editor's sidenotes can be read as a condensed version ...
— Early English Meals and Manners • Various
... animi varios, bellumque sequacis Perlegis invidiae, curasque revolvis inanes, Quas humilis tenero stylus olim effudit in aevo. Perlegis et lacrymas, et quod pharetratus acuta Ille puer puero fecit mihi cuspide vulnus. Omnia paulatim consumit longior aetas, Vivendoque simul morimur, rapimurque manendo. Ipse mihi collatus enim non ille videbor; Frons alia est, moresque alii, nova mentis imago, Vox aliudque sonat—Jamque observatio ...
— Biographia Literaria • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
... crystalla puer contingere lubrica gaudet Et gelidum tenero pollice versat onus, Videt perspicuo deprensas in marmore nymphas, Dura quibus solis parcere novit hyems: Et siccum religens labiis sitientibus orbem, Irrita ...
— The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II • Various |
