"Soothsayer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... she lived. He would not have dared to call on her now, if it had not been for the tremendous thing that had happened in his life; for he was sure he would become King of Kosnovia. The art that conceals art is good; but the art that is unconscious of artifice is better, and never had soothsayer arranged more effective preliminaries for astounding ...
— A Son of the Immortals • Louis Tracy
... page aright Where Hope, the soothsayer, reads our lot, Thyself shalt own the page was bright, Well that we loved, ...
— Poems - Household Edition • Ralph Waldo Emerson
... My friends! come forth successive from the right,[99] 170 Where he who ministers the cup begins. So spake Antinoues, and his counsel pleased. Then, first, Leiodes, Oenop's son, arose. He was their soothsayer, and ever sat Beside the beaker, inmost of them all. To him alone, of all, licentious deeds Were odious, and, with indignation fired, He witness'd the excesses of the rest. He then took foremost ...
— The Odyssey of Homer • Homer
... Janauschek, the lines of which agree to perfection with the laws of chiromancy. The art reminds one of Cervantes's ape, who told the past and present, but not the future. And here "tell me what thou hast been, and I will tell what thou wilt be" gives a fine opportunity to the soothsayer. ...
— The Gypsies • Charles G. Leland
... Course, Calphurnia, Portia, Decius, Cicero, Brutus, Cassius, Caska, a Soothsayer: after them ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare
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