"Asse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... very mouthes they make to vilifie, shall be meanes to amplifie his vertue. And it was not easie for Cato to speake evill, so was it not usuall for him to heare evill. It may be Socrates would not kicke againe, if an asse did kicke at him, yet some that cannot be so wise, and will not be so patient as Socrates, will for such jadish tricks give the asse his due burthen of bastonadas. Let H.S. hisse, and his complices quarrell, and all breake their gals, I have a great faction of ...
— Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 • Arthur Acheson
... it is as easie to send Truth backward, as it is to spur Falsities egregiously forward, and might have caus'd any Asse, as knowing as Balaam's, to have rebuk'd such a Poet as will needs prophecy against the sense of Heaven and Men. But I have enough of this Amiell, as well as of his Muse, unless that by his means ...
— Anti-Achitophel (1682) - Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden • Elkanah Settle et al.
... famam Demosthenis aut Ciceronis Incipit optare et totis Quinquatribus optat 115 Quisquis adhuc uno parcam colit asse Minervam, Quem sequitur custos angustae vernula capsae. Eloquio sed uterque perit orator, utrumque Largus et exundans leto dedit ingenii fons. Ingenio manus est et cervix caesa, nec umquam 120 Sanguine causidici maduerunt rostra ...
— Helps to Latin Translation at Sight • Edmund Luce |
