"Turnus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... imbued with it: few writers of any age have launched more fiery sarcasm upon the fear of death, or the blind passion of love than he has done in his third and fourth books. Even the gentle Virgil breaks forth at times into earnest invective, tipped with the flame of satire: [2] Dido's bitter irony, Turnus' fierce taunts, show that he could wield with stern effect this specially Roman weapon. Lucan and Seneca affect a style which, though grotesque, is meant to be satirical; while at the close of the classical period, Tacitus transforms the calm domain of history into satire, more burning because ...
— A History of Roman Literature - From the Earliest Period to the Death of Marcus Aurelius • Charles Thomas Cruttwell
... in dealing and carriage, can protect any person? Do not men assume to themselves a liberty of telling romances, and framing characters concerning their neighbour, as freely as a poet doth about Hector or Turnus, Thersites or Draucus? Do they not usurp a power of playing with, or tossing about, of tearing in pieces their neighbour's good name, as if it were the veriest toy in the world? Do not many having a form of godliness (some of them, demurely, others confidently, both without any ...
— Sermons on Evil-Speaking • Isaac Barrow
... Turnus Rufus once said to Rabbi Akiva, "If your God is a friend to the poor, why doesn't he feed them?" To which he promptly replied, "That we by maintaining them may escape the condemnation of Gehenna." "On the contrary," said the Emperor, "the very fact of your maintaining the poor will condemn you ...
— Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and - Kabbala • Various
... Anchises on his back, that wisheth not it were his fortune to perform so excellent an act? Whom do not the words of Turnus move? (the tale of Turnus having planted his image ...
— English literary criticism • Various
... Jungfrau minniglich. Zu reden sie begonnte, 9745 Wie sie es wohl konnte, Mit sehr klugem Sinn. Es sprach die Knigin: "Lavine, schnes Mgdelein, Du liebe Tochter mein, 9750 Vielleicht es nun so endet, Dass der Vater dir entwendet Grosses Gut und grosse Ehr': Turnus, der edle Herr, Der deine Minne stark begehrt, 9755 Ist deiner durchaus wert; Des hab' ich sichere Kunde. Und wrest du zur Stunde Tausendmal so schn und gut, Du knntest billig deinen Mut 9760 Dem tapfern Mann zukehren; Ich gnne dir die Ehren. ...
— An anthology of German literature • Calvin Thomas
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