"Dl" Quotes from Famous Books
... to-day I seem to snivel more than usual. Well, I will pour oil on my head and go off to sleep. I don't mean to put one drop in my lamp to-day, so weary am I from riding and sneezing. Farewell, dearest and most beloved master, whom I miss, I may say, more than Rome itdL' ... — Meditations • Marcus Aurelius
... his tongue, the camp is full of licence, And the sharp stinging of a lively rogue Is, to my mind, far preferable to The gross, dull, heavy, gloomy execration Of a mere famished sullen grumbling slave,[dl] Whom nothing can convince save a full meal, And wine, and sleep, and a few Maravedis, 260 With which he deems ... — The Works of Lord Byron - Poetry, Volume V. • Lord Byron
... above title from an article in the Censura Literaria[DL], communicated by Mr. Park, of whose copious information, and constant accuracy on every subject connected with English literature, the public ... — Microcosmography - or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters • John Earle
... make our equals, not our lords:[dk] And chiefly thou, Ordelafo the brave, Who perished in the field, where I since conquered, Battling at Zara, did the hecatombs Of thine and Venice' foes, there offered up By thy descendant, merit such acquittance?[dl] 40 Spirits! smile down upon me! for my cause Is yours, in all life now can be of yours,— Your fame, your name, all mingled up in mine, And in the future fortunes of our race! Let me but prosper, and I make this city Free and immortal, and our House's ... — The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4 • Lord Byron
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