"Aug" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of Saturday, Aug. 21st, will long be remembered by the habitues of the Opera. From exclusive sources (which have been opened to us at a very considerable expense) we are enabled to communicate—malheureusement—that with the close of the saison de 1841, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, August 28, 1841 • Various
... coldly received at first. "Even my friends," writes Gray, in a letter to Hurd, Aug. 25, 1757, "tell me they do not succeed, and write me moving topics of consolation on that head. In short, I have heard of nobody but an Actor [Garrick] and a Doctor of Divinity [Warburton] that profess their esteem for ...
— Select Poems of Thomas Gray • Thomas Gray
... save in the republic of letters, on your birthday. You may well be amused to think how many political reputations have risen and set during your long and sunny reign. I was led to think of this by the fact that my own birthday also comes Aug. 29th. But alas! ...
— Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 • George Hoar
... that he has discovered old Egyptian fortresses at Halfa and at Matuga, twelve miles south, the latter containing a cartouche of Usertesen III: and has opened three rocktombs at Halfa.—Academy, July 16 and Aug. 6. ...
— The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 • Various
... H. Harrison, writing to the Secretary of War from the borders of Lake Erie, Aug. 29, 1813, says: "You can form some estimate of the deadly effects of the immense body of stagnant water with which the vicinity of the lake abounds, from the state of the troops at Sandusky. Upwards of 90 are this morning reported ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 60, October 1862 • Various
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