"Animalia" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... volucris; Et piscis cum pisce ferox hostilibus armis Praelia saeva gerit: jam pristina pabula spernunt, Jam tondere piget viridantes gramine campos: Alterum et alterius vivunt animalia letho: Prisca nec in gentem humanam reverentia durat; Sed fugiunt, vel, si steterant, fera bella minantur Fronte truci, torvosque ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes - Volume V: Miscellaneous Pieces • Samuel Johnson
... thought, then shouted: "Latin, Prendick! bad Latin, schoolboy Latin; but try and understand. Hi non sunt homines; sunt animalia qui nos habemus—vivisected. A humanising process. ...
— The Island of Doctor Moreau • H. G. Wells
... Dreyfus Les lois agraires p. 97. Varro (R.R. i. 12. 2) is singularly correct in his account of the nature of the disease that arose from the loca palustria:—Crescunt animalia quaedam minuta, quae non possunt oculi consequi, et per aera intus in corpus per os ac nares perveniunt atque efficiunt difficilis morbos. The passage is cited by Voigt (Iwan-Mueller's Handbuch iv. 2. p. 358) who gives a good sketch of the evils ...
— A History of Rome, Vol 1 - During the late Republic and early Principate • A H.J. Greenidge
... igitur magni quoque circum moenia mundi expugnata dabunt labem putrisque ruinas. iamque adeo fracta est aetas effetaque tellus vix animalia parva creat quae cuncta creavit saecla deditque ferarum ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds
... the hearts of men": "veluti jacula et sagittae ad effascinandorum corda." And it carries disease and death, as well as love and delight, in its course: "Totumque corpus inficiunt, atque ita (nulla interposita mora) arbores, segetes, bruta animalia et homines perniciosa qualitate inficiunt et ad interitum deducunt." Vairus relates that a friend of his saw a fascinator simply with a look break in two a precious gem while in the hands of the artist who was working upon it. ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 32, June, 1860 • Various |
