"Agora" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... disparate. [p] Vesti ora este brial, metey o bra[c,]o por aqui, ora esperay. Oo como vem t[a]o real! isto tal me parece bem a mi: ora anday. 35 H[u]s chapins aueis mister de Valen[c,]a, muy fermosos[*], eylos aqui: Agora estais vos molher de parecer. P[o]de os bra[c,]os presumptuosos, isso si, 36 passeayuos muy pomposa, [p] daqui pera ali & de laa por ca, & fantasiay. Agora estais vos fermosa como a rosa, tudo vos ...
— Four Plays of Gil Vicente • Gil Vicente
... perpetual turmoil that, as Dean Funes* says, 'they only stopped when it was absolutely necessary for them to breathe.' Even the overpraised citizens of Athens at the time of Pericles, who must have been in all their ways so like the Athenians of to-day, were not more instant in the Agora or diligent in writing patriots' names on oyster-shells than the noisy mob of half-breed patriots who in the sandy streets of Asuncion were ever agitating, always assembling, and doing everything within their power to show the world the perfect picture of a democratic State. ...
— A Vanished Arcadia, • R. B. Cunninghame Graham
... not there," interrupted Euripides—"not in Sparta, but here at home. The demagogues have stirred up the marsh, and therefore we have the pestilence in the Agora, and the pestilence in ...
— Historical Miniatures • August Strindberg
... miedo de los Espanoles porque en tomando alguno luego lo aperreaban, i desto huian los Indios i no sembraban i todos murieron de hambre, digo todos porque habia pueblos de a quinientos casas i de a mil, i el que agora tiene ciento es mucho; provincia rica de cacao. Este capitan por sus proprias manos exercitaba las fuerzas, con un garrote mate muchos i decia, 'este es buen palo para castigar a estos;' i desque lo habia muerto, 'O, quan bien ...
— The Maya Chronicles - Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 • Various
... waiting to take breath. Going upstairs he found his carroty-haired cat giving vent to piteous mewings. For two nights already it has thus been vainly summoning its faithless love, an agora Manon Lescaut, who had started on a campaign of ...
— Bohemians of the Latin Quarter • Henry Murger
... streets with naked swords. The slain were not counted, but the number is even now measured by the space over which the blood flowed. For besides those who were slaughtered in the other parts of the city, the blood of those who fell about the Agora[222] covered all the Keramicus within Dipylum: many say that it even flowed through the gates and deluged the suburbs. But though the number of those who perished by the sword was so great, as many ...
— Plutarch's Lives, Volume II • Aubrey Stewart & George Long
... about the business of the agora, and the ordinary dealings between man and man, or again about agreements with artisans; about insult and injury, or the commencement of actions, and the appointment of juries, what would you say? there may also arise ...
— The Republic • Plato
... las oraciones, y saludes deuidas a le propheta Mahumet. Seruira esta por os hazer saber que llego a qui a nuestra real Corte vuestra carta, y entendimos lo que en ella se contiene. Y vuestro Ambaxador, que aqui esti en nuestra corte me dio a entender la causa de la tardanca de los rehenes hasta agora: el qual descuento recebimos, y nos damos por satisfechos. Y quanta a lo que a nos escriueys por causa de Iuan Herman, y lo mesmo que nos ha dicho el Ambaxador sobre el, antes que llegasse vuestra carta por la quexa del ambaxador, que se auia quexado del, ya auiamos mandado prender ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of - The English Nation, Vol. 11 • Richard Hakluyt
... impervious to human sight. The doom of tyrannies was thenceforth sealed. Satire and invective became potent as armies. The unseen hands of the Juniuses could launch the thunderbolts, and make the ministers tremble. One whisper from this giant fills the earth as easily as Demosthenes filled the Agora. It will soon be heard at the antipodes as easily as in the next street. It travels with the lightning under the oceans. It makes the mass one man, speaks to it in the same common language, and elicits a sure and single response. Speech passes into thought, and thence promptly into act. A ...
— Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike
... that vast bulk of chest and limb assigned So oft to men who subjugate their kind; So sturdy Cromwell pushed broad-shouldered on; So burly Luther breasted Babylon; So brawny Cleon bawled his agora down; And large-limb'd Mahomed clutched a ...
— Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography • George William Erskine Russell
... unkind to him in the matter of his person. His face was ugly as a satyr's, and he had an awkward, shambling walk, so that he invited the shafts of the comic poets of his time. He loved to gather a little circle about him in the Agora or in the streets, and then to draw out his listeners by a series of ingenious questions. His method was so peculiar to himself that it has received the designation of the "Socratic dialogue." He has very happily been called an educator, as opposed to ...
— A General History for Colleges and High Schools • P. V. N. Myers |
