"Otus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... notice that restless living element at all, except to bless his stars that he was not upon it. Nor the distinct detail, nor the refined coloring, nor the graceful outline and roseate golden line of the jutting crags, nor the bold shadows east from Otus or Laurium by the declining sun—our agent of a mercantile firm would not value these matters even at a low figure. Rather we must turn for the sympathy we seek to yon pilgrim student, come from a semi-barbarous land to ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV • Various
... Gods themselves. Then thus Dione, Goddess all divine. My child! how hard soe'er thy sufferings seem Endure them patiently. Full many a wrong From human hands profane the Gods endure, 445 And many a painful stroke, mankind from ours. Mars once endured much wrong, when on a time Him Otus bound and Ephialtes fast, Sons of Aloeeus, and full thirteen moons In brazen thraldom held him. There, at length, 450 The fierce blood-nourished Mars had pined away, But that Eeriboea, loveliest nymph, His step-mother, in happy hour disclosed To ...
— The Iliad of Homer - Translated into English Blank Verse • Homer
... in planning this book, for sharing his bird-notes with the writer, and for a critical reading of the manuscript, acknowledgment should be made to Mr. Robert J. Sim. Certain events in the lives of Eve and Petro and little Solomon Otus are told with reference to his observations of eave-swallows and screech owls; his trip to an island off the Maine coast for gull-sketches added greatly to an acquaintance with Larie; and but for his six-weeks' visit with the loons of "Immer Lake," much of the story of Gavia could ...
— Bird Stories • Edith M. Patch |
