"Euphrosyne" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... when prince Menzikof insisted upon having the sole management of the unfortunate Alexey. Prince Menzikof abandoned him to the company of the lowest wretches, who encouraged him in continual ebriety, and in a taste for every thing mean and profligate. At length came Euphrosyne, his Finlandish mistress, who, upon his trial for rebellion, deposed to every angry expression which, in his most unguarded moments, the wretched son had uttered against the tyrannical father. Amidst such scenes of contradictory experience, can we be surprised, that Alexey Petrovitch became ...
— Practical Education, Volume I • Maria Edgeworth
... assistunt, dominamque sequuntur: Hincque voluptates, atque alimenta parant; Laetitiam Euphrosyne, speciosum Aglaia nitorem; Suadela est Pithus, blandus et ore lepos. Cur nudae? mentis quoniam candore venustas Constat, et eximia simplicitate plucet. An quia nil referunt ingrati, atque arcula inanis Est ...
— Notes and Queries 1850.03.23 • Various
... sights unholy. Find out som uncouth cell, Where brooding darknes spreads his jealous wings, And the night-Raven sings; There, under Ebon shades, and low-brow'd Rocks, As ragged as thy Locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell. But com thou Goddes fair and free, In Heav'n ycleap'd Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus, at a birth With two sister Graces more To Ivy-crowned Bacchus bore; Or whether (as som Sager sing) The frolick Wind that breathes the Spring, Zephir with Aurora playing, ...
— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy
... Large Doll here?" she exclaimed. "It must have been the boys,"—meaning her brothers; "how wicked of them to leave her out in that shower. And here are the twins, Euphrosyne and Calliope, all hidden among the bushes, and dear little Eunice! They look as if they had been in the wars! How could Tom have known we were coming this ...
— Junior Classics, V6 • Various
... And Mrs. Euphrosyne Pursifer remarked to the latest agreeable accession to the parish of St. Marks, with that graceful indirection that gave her the reputation in Sardis of being ...
— The Red Acorn • John McElroy |
