"4" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... latter treatment applied only to those whose land was confiscated. Thus Sulla vindicated the majesty of the Republic and at the time avoided furnishing his enemies with a nucleus in Italian communities. In Campania, the democratic colony established at Capua by Cinna[4] was done away with and the domain given back to the state, thus becoming ager publicus. The whole territory of Praeneste and Norba in Latium, and Spoletium in Umbria was confiscated. The town of Sulmo ...
— Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic • Andrew Stephenson
... is worn as ragged as a coat A beggar wears; a prince should put it off. [3] To love a captive and a giantess! Oh love! oh love! how great a king art thou! My tongue's thy trumpet, and thou trumpetest, Unknown to me, within me. [4] Oh, Glumdalca! Heaven thee designed a giantess to make, But an angelick soul was shuffled in. [5] I am a multitude of walking griefs, And only on her lips the balm is found [6] To spread a plaster that might cure ...
— Miscellanies, Volume 2 (from Works, Volume 12) • Henry Fielding
... one of the parlor windows, stepped in, took a very valuable French clock, given me on my silver- wedding day, and all the hats and overcoats from the hall. This was all they had time to do before our night-watchman came round; they left the window wide open, and at 4 A.M. Pat rang the bell and informed Mr. Prentiss that such was the case. We feel it a great mercy that we were not attacked and maltreated. Poor A. was sitting up in bed, hearing what was going on, but being alone on the third floor, did not dare ...
— The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss • George L. Prentiss
... April 4. He says it is a strong plot and that he will help me. That means the book will succeed. I wonder how a man feels who can do things, not merely dream them. I expected he would laugh when I told him the plot, especially when I told whom the woman was; but he didn't say a word. He thinks, ...
— A Breath of Prairie and other stories • Will Lillibridge
... Des Erbes beraubt, da ostwrts er hinritt. Dem mchtigen Otaker war er masslos erzrnt, Der beste der Degen war er bei Dietrich; Seitdem entbehrte Dietrich den Beistand 25 —Er war so freundlos[4]— meines Vaters: Der war dem Volke voran stets; fechten war immer ihm lieb. Kund war er manchen khnen Mannen. Nicht whne ich mehr, dass er wandelt auf Erden." Hildebrand erhob das Wort, Heribrands Sohn: 30 "Das wisse ...
— An anthology of German literature • Calvin Thomas
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