"Pliny" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a fling at magicians for their abominable lies and monstrous vanities."—PLINY, ap. ...
— Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1 • Andrew Lang
... and bees, We have found thee at last," he said, "Where the honey-comb swells in the hollow trees," (O, the lily behind his head!) "The honey-comb swells in the purple wood! 'Tis the swette which the heavens distil, Saith Pliny himself, on my little book-shelf! Is the world not ...
— Collected Poems - Volume Two (of 2) • Alfred Noyes
... How would you translate Pliny's 'Quisquis est Deus, et quacumque in parte, totus est Sensus, totus Visus, totus Auditus, totus Animae, totus ...
— Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes - Vol. II • Edward FitzGerald
... must entreat the reader to remember that in a wide-extended and beautiful region, the eye does not everywhere meet with golden harvests, smiling meads, and fruitful orchards; but sees, at different intervals, wild and less cultivated tracts of land. And, to use another comparison, furnished by Pliny,(44) some trees in the spring emulously shoot forth a numberless multitude of blossoms, which by this rich dress (the splendour and vivacity of whose colours charm the eye) proclaim a happy abundance in a more advanced season: while other trees,(45) of a less gay appearance, though they ...
— The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, • Charles Rollin
... derived it, rather than that which has been made by yourself. I have bestowed attention not only upon the arguments which support Christianity, but upon the actual condition of the Christian community, here and throughout the empire. It is prosperous at this hour, beyond all former example. If Pliny could complain, even in his day, of the desertion of the temples of the gods, what may we now suppose to be the relative numbers of the two great parties? Only, Varus, allow the rescript of Gallienus to continue in force, which merely releases us from oppressions, and ...
— Aurelian - or, Rome in the Third Century • William Ware
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