"Thracian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and angry wail; Like crowds that shout for bread and hunger more. And now the surface of their rolling backs Was ridged with foam-topt furrows, rising high And dashing wildly, like to fiery steeds, Fresh from the Thracian or Thessalian plains, High-blooded mares just tempering to the bit, Whose manes at full-speed stream upon the winds, And in whose delicate nostrils when the gust Breathes of their native plains, they ramp and rear, ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... for protection to the court of the king of Thrace. At the same time he sent the greater part of his treasures, including a large sum of money, to be taken care of by the king till the war should be over. But as soon as the Thracian monarch heard of the fall of Troy he treacherously slew the young prince and ...
— Story of Aeneas • Michael Clarke
... the lyre Born upon Thracian lands, as foster child; And on its golden strings the restless beatings Of Sappho's and Erinna's flaming hearts Were ...
— Life Immovable - First Part • Kostes Palamas
... worshipped,—Melete (meditation), Mneme (memory), and Aoide (song). Three Muses were also recognized at Delphi and Sicyon. Four are mentioned as daughters of Jupiter and Plusia, while some accounts speak of seven Muses, daughters of Pierus. Eight was the number known in Athens, until finally the Thracian worship of nine spread over the whole of Greece. The parentage of these divinities is given with as many variations as their number. Most commonly they were considered daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne (memory), born in ...
— Woman's Work in Music • Arthur Elson
... visage. He stands by, Who the hard trade of Porterage does ply With stooping shoulders. What cares he? he sees The assembled ring, nor heeds his tottering knees, But pricks his ears up with the hopes of song. So, while the Bard of Rhodope his wrong Bewail'd to Proserpine on Thracian strings, The tasks of gloomy Orcus lost their stings, And stone-vext Sysiphus forgets his load. Hither and thither from the sevenfold road Some cart or waggon crosses, which divides The close-wedged audience; but, as when the tides To ploughing ships give way, the ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb IV - Poems and Plays • Charles and Mary Lamb
... believing eyes Bacchus unveils entire his sacred mysteries. Movements confus'd of joy and fear Hurry me I know not where. With boldness all divine the god inspires; With what a pleasing fury am I fill'd! Such raging fires Never the Menades in Thracian caves beheld. ...
— Ebrietatis Encomium - or, the Praise of Drunkenness • Boniface Oinophilus
... to you, brave comrades!" he said. "Don't judge me by these rags, my boys. They're a disguise. Have you heard of Haemus, the famous Thracian brigand? If so, you've heard of me. My band has been cut up, but I'm bringing what men I still have to you. Shall we ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol. I • Various
... Thracian race is the most numerous, except the Indians, in all the world: and if it should come to be ruled over by one man, or to agree together in one, it would be irresistible in fight and the strongest by far of ...
— The History Of Herodotus - Volume 2 (of 2) • Herodotus
... fame! There without woe or disaster we came from the foe and the fight, In triumph, enriched with the spoil, to the land and the city's delight. What towns ere the Halys he passed! what towns ere he came to the West, To the main and the isles of the Strymon, and the Thracian region possess'd! And those that stand back from the main, enringed by their fortified wall, Gave o'er to Darius, the king, the sceptre and sway over all! Those too by the channel of Helle, where southward it broadens and glides, By the inlets, Propontis! of thee, ...
— Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays • AEschylus
... drums sound bloud & death, And Mars high mounted on his Thracian Steede: Runs madding through Pharsalias purple fieldes. The earth that's wont to be a Tombe for Men It's now entomb'd with Carkases of Men. The Heauen appal'd to see such hideous sights, For feare puts out her euer burning lights. The Gods amaz'd (as once in Titans war,) 10 Do doubt and feare, ...
— The Tragedy Of Caesar's Revenge • Anonymous |
