"Mod" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... regards it not merely in its beautiful appearances but in its natural laws (Purg. XV). And when Dante comes to describe the exact color, say of an apple blossom, his splendid and unequalled power as a scientific observer of Nature and a poet is most evident. Ruskin (Mod. Painters III, 226) commenting on the passage: flowers of a color "less than that of roses but more than that of violets" (Purg. XXXII, 58) makes this interesting remark: "It certainly would not be possible in words, to come nearer to the definition of the exact hue ...
— Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" • John T. Slattery
... narrative of the war during Church's tenure of the command, which corrects many errors in the published accounts and successfully vindicates Church's reputation against the strictures of Finlay, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, and other historians of the war (see Cam. Mod. Hist. x. ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 - "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" • Various
... {Greek letters} a dry drug. Those who care to see how it is still studied will consult my History of Sindh (chapt. vii) and my experience which pointed only to the use made of it in base coinage. Hence in mod. tongue Kimiywi, an alchemist, means a coiner, a smasher. The reader must not suppose that the transmutation of metals is a dead study: I calculate that there are about one hundred workers in ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 8 • Richard F. Burton
... grande consolation d'avoir. * * * Les Etats-Unis est une mod,le de perfection republicaine," said he, taking the blanket from Daley and throwing it upon the floor. He was but a poor companion for his fellow-prisoners, being deprived of the means to exercise ...
— Manuel Pereira • F. C. Adams
... ondertake to oversee the farm; (My eldes' boy is so took up, wut with the Ringtail Rangers An' settin' in the Jestice-Court for welcomin' o' strangers";) [He sot on me;] "an' so, ef you'll jest ondertake the care Upon a mod'rit sellery, we'll up an' call it square; But ef you can't conclude," suz she, an' give a kin' o' grin, "Wy, the Gran' Jury, I expect, 'll hev to set agin." Thet's the way metters stood at fust; now wut wuz I to du, But jest to make the best on't an' off coat an' buckle tu? Ther' ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 • Various
... however, brought about by the intensity of the Greek sense that the heaven is light, more than it is blue. I was not thinking of this when I wrote in speaking of pictorial chiaroscuro, "The sky is not blue color merely: it is blue fire and cannot be painted" (Mod. P. iv. p. 36); but it was this that the Greeks chiefly felt of it, and so "Glaukopis" chiefly means gray-eyed: gray standing for a pale or luminous blue; but it only means "owl-eyed" in thought of the roundness and ...
— The Queen of the Air • John Ruskin
... disdain To check the lawless riot of the trees, To plant the grove, or turn the barren mould Oh happy he, whom, when his years decline, (His fortune and his fame by worthy means Attain'd, and equal to his mod'rate mind; His life approv'd by all the wise and good, Even envy'd by the vain) the peaceful groves Of Epicurus, from this stormy world Hereine in rest; of all ungrateful cares Absolv'd, and sacred from the selfish crowd. ...
— The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 6 - Or, Flower-Garden Displayed • William Curtis |
