"Thunderer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Titans, born of ancient Earth, Hurled to the bottom by the lightning's blast. There lie—twin monsters of enormous girth— Aloeus' sons, who 'gainst Olympus cast Their impious hands, and strove with daring vast To disenthrone the Thunderer. There, again, The famed Salmoneus I beheld, laid fast In cruel agonies of endless pain, Who sought the flames of Jove with mimic ...
— The Aeneid of Virgil - Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor • Virgil
... burst again—a short, abrupt peal, as if the egis had fallen from the weakened hand of the thunderer. Storm-voices trembled from the mountains, sounding dully in the gorges, and died away in the clefts. In their place ...
— Best Russian Short Stories • Various
... dare not say, that, had the pope been there, He would have join'd the laugh sonorous; But sad the king, I hold, who should not dare To lead, for such a cause, in such a chorus. The gods are laughers. Spite of ebon brows, Jove joints the laugh which he allows. As history saith, the thunderer's laugh went up When limping Vulcan served the nectar cup. Whether or not immortals here are wise, Good sense, I think, in my digression lies. For, since the moral's what we have in view, What could the falconer's fate have taught us new? Who does not notice, in the course of ...
— The Fables of La Fontaine - A New Edition, With Notes • Jean de La Fontaine |
