"Picus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... another Climacteris Picumnus, common in the pine forests and on the open box-tree flats all over the interior. It is not a showy bird in any way, but is very active and indefatigable in its search for insects. It is remarkable that no Picus ...
— Expedition into Central Australia • Charles Sturt
... the same. As for instance, common Maina, Doves, the Picus of low swampy places, and the Lark of the plains of Assam. Squirrel, ventre ferrugineo. Black Pheasant, Phasianus leucomelanus, Laurineae, Acanthaceae, Rubiacea and Filices, are common in ...
— Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and The - Neighbouring Countries • William Griffith
... But Picus yet and Lawrence were on live, Whom at one birth their mother fair brought out, A pair whose likeness made the parents strive Oft which was which, and joyed in their doubt: But what their birth did undistinguished give, The Soldan's rage made known, ...
— Jerusalem Delivered • Torquato Tasso
... of days, ruled o'er the fields' increase, And cities of the people there at rest in long-drawn peace: Of Faunus and Laurentian nymph, Marica, do we learn That he was born: but Faunus came of Picus, who must turn To thee, O Saturn, for his sire: 'twas he that blood began. Now, as God would, this king had got no son to grow a man, 50 For he who first had dawned on him in earliest youth had waned: A daughter only such ...
— The AEneids of Virgil - Done into English Verse • Virgil
... edition had six uncorrected errors in it when it was finally published. Disraeli says that the so-called Pearl Bible had six thousand errata! The works of Picus of Mirandula, Strasburg, 1507, gave a list of errata covering fifteen folio pages, and a worse case is that of "Missae ac Missalis Anatomia" (1561), a volume of one hundred and seventy-two pages, fifteen of which are devoted to the ...
— The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac • Eugene Field
... many wanderings, wanderings of the intellect as well as physical journeys, that Pico came to rest at Florence. Born in 1463, he was then about twenty years old. He was called Giovanni at baptism, Pico, like all his ancestors, from Picus, nephew of the Emperor Constantine, from whom they claimed to be descended, and Mirandola from the place of his birth, a little town afterwards part of the duchy of Modena, of which small territory his family had long been the feudal lords. Pico was the youngest ...
— The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry • Walter Horatio Pater
... memory was his judgment and invention, he being tried with divers hard questions which required maturity of thought and experience. He was also dexterous in chronology, antiquities, mathematics. In sum, an intellectus universalis beyond all that we reade of Picus Mirandula, and other precoce witts, and yet withal a very humble child.' This prodigy was the son of the Rev. Henry Wotton, minister of Wrentham, Suffolk. Sir William Skippon, a parishioner, in a letter yet extant, describes the wonderful achievements of ...
— East Anglia - Personal Recollections and Historical Associations • J. Ewing Ritchie |
