"Destine" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... te, cor mio, l'esser amato? Che giova a me l'aver si cara Amante? Se tu, crudo Destine, ne dividi Cio che amor ...
— My Recollections of Lord Byron • Teresa Guiccioli
... the English Ambassador's train.' cf. Pope's Sir Plume in The Rape of the Lock. In one of the French scenes of La Precaution inutile, produced 5 March, 1692, by the Italian comedians, Gaufichon (Act i, I) cries to Leandre: 'Je destine ma soeur a Monsieur le Docteur Balouard, et trente Plumets comme vous ne la detourneroient pas d'un aussi bon rencontre.' The French word a fop is, however, extremely rare. Plumet more often un jeune militaire. ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. III • Aphra Behn |
