"Trivia" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... To Trivia may be allowed all that it claims; it is sprightly, various, and pleasant. The subject is of that kind which Gay was, by nature, qualified to adorn; yet some of his decorations may be justly wished away. An honest blacksmith might have ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes - Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II • Samuel Johnson
... charges they fulfil, The pious prince ascends the sacred hill Where Phoebus is ador'd; and seeks the shade Which hides from sight his venerable maid. Deep in a cave the Sibyl makes abode; Thence full of fate returns, and of the god. Thro' Trivia's grove they walk; and now behold, And enter now, the temple roof'd with gold. When Daedalus, to fly the Cretan shore, His heavy limbs on jointed pinions bore, (The first who sail'd in air,) 't is sung by Fame, To the Cumaean coast at ...
— The Aeneid • Virgil
... called Juno Lucina by the mother in her travail-pangs, thou art named potent Trivia and Luna ...
— The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus • Caius Valerius Catullus
... in general a hale, comely, well-favoured race, notwithstanding the assertion of the author of Trivia to the contrary.[5] ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. - Volume 19, No. 536, Saturday, March 3, 1832. • Various
... AEneas seeks the house where King Apollo bides, The mighty den, the secret place set far apart, that hides 10 The awful Sibyl, whose great soul and heart he seeketh home, The Seer of Delos, showing her the hidden things to come: And so the groves of Trivia and ...
— The AEneids of Virgil - Done into English Verse • Virgil |
