"Longe" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... danell Sprage, [said] unto Captaine John duglasse, "without your Commishon be very firme and that you be sure you Can Make a prise of her I desire you not to Come neer her, for I know what the ship is and Came out of holland in her". he Answered and said if I would goe a longe with him he would beare me out in all damages that shuld follow or insue upon me Conserning takeing of the prise. then the shipe which I Came from Jemecoe in wasse gon from the Iland over to the Cammanus and their wasse noe other shipe left but only Captaine John Duglasse. I said unto Captaine ...
— Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period - Illustrative Documents • Various
... quoniam factioni inimicorum resistere nequiverit, fortunae cedere, Massiliam[174] in exilium proficisci: non quo sibi tanti sceleris conscius esset, sed uti res publica quieta foret, neve ex sua contentione seditio oriretur.' Ab his longe diversas litteras Q. Catulus in senatu recitavit, quas sibi nomine Catilinae redditas dicebat; ...
— De Bello Catilinario et Jugurthino • Caius Sallustii Crispi (Sallustius)
... those that longe to see The crosse Meanders in Loves destinie; To see the changes in a shatterd wit Proove a man Changlinge in attemptinge it; To change a noble minde t'a gloz'd intent Beefore such change will let um see th' event. This change our Famous Princes ...
— Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama - A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration - Stage in England • Walter W. Greg
... fistes intoe hir small syde-pockets, and propelleth onward mightilie independente, caring naught for nobodie. I haue herd from dyvers graue and reuerend menn, who oughte to know, [sith that ther wyves hadd tolde them,] that manie of these demoiselles do wear verie longe bootes, but howe long they ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. I, No. V, May, 1862 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various
... impete cymbam, Usque volaturae similem, tamen usque morantem. Ah! Stanleius ubi est? ubi fortis et acer Ioenas Et Virtus ingens, maiorque vel Hercule Iudas? Ah! ubi, laeva mei novit quem fluminis ora, Ile 'Ictus,' vitreis longe spectandus ocellis, Dulce decus Cami, quem plebs ignoblis 'Aulam,' Vulpicanem Superi grato cognomine dicunt? Te quoque, magne Pales, et te mea flumina deflent O formose puer, quibus alto in gurgite mersis Mille dedit, rapuit mille ...
— Sagittulae, Random Verses • E. W. Bowling
... reasons for the desolation of Kidland are graphically set forth:—"In somer seasons when good peace ys betwene England and Scotland, th'inhabitantes of dyv'se townes thereaboutes repayres up with theyr cattall in som'ynge (summering) as ys aforesaid, and so have used to do of longe tyme. And for the pasture of theyr cattall, so long as they would tarye there they payed for a knoweledge two pens for a household, or a grote at the most, though they had nev' so many cattalles. And yet the poore men thoughte their fermes dere enoughe. ...
— Northumberland Yesterday and To-day • Jean F. Terry
... the south side of the vestrarie standeth a grete library with ij longe lecturnalles theron to ley ...
— The Care of Books • John Willis Clark
... that she had acquainted my wife ... but for my satisfaction she told me that she would be as mindfull of her when God should call her as if she were w{i}th her, and in testimony of her good likinge of her seruice she would allowe her forty shillings yearly towarde her maintainance as longe as herself should liue. Iam soe well acquainted w{i}th what she hath as yet disposed to her by will, and soe little value forty shillings to my coson Hunton's credit, as I gaue her noe thankes. Mr Downes (Iheare) is sent for home by his father w{i}th an intent ...
— Early English Meals and Manners • Various
... tenebricosa, et tristis, non tam in aequitate quam in verborum superstitione fundata, eaque Ciceronis aetatem fere attigit, mansitque annos circiter CCCL. Quae hanc excepit, viguitque annos fere septuaginta novem, superiori longe humanior; quippe quae magis utilitate communi, quam potestate verborum, negotia ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. XI. (of 12) • Edmund Burke
... deorum auspicio, mare meridionale sulcantes, a littore non longe evagantes, superato circulo equinoctiali, in alterum orbem excepti stint. Ubi ipsis stantibus orientem versus, umbra ad meridiem et dextram projiciebatur. Aperuere igitur sua industria, alium orbem hactenus nobis incognitum et multis annis, a nullis ...
— The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Vol. II) • Washington Irving
... deemed unlucky to assume a new dress when the moon was in her decline. So says the Earl of Northampton: "They forbidde us when the moone is in a fixed signe, to put on a newe garment. Why so? Because it is lyke that it wyll be too longe in wearing, a small fault about this towne, where garments seldome last till they be payd for. But thyr meaning is, that the garment shall continue long, not in respect of any strength or goodness in the stuffe, but by the ...
— Moon Lore • Timothy Harley
... Lucretius on Epicurus: "Ergo vivida vis animi pervicit, et extra Processit longe ...
— On the Sublime • Longinus
... Church of Chartres. "Hujus sacrae institutionis ritus apud Carnotensem ecclesiam est inchoatus." From Chartres it had spread through Normandy, where it produced among other things the beautiful spire which we saw at Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives. "Postremo per totam fere Normanniam longe lateque convaluit ac loca per singula Matri misericordiae dicata praecipue occupavit." The movement affected especially the places devoted to Mary, but ran through all Normandy, far and wide. Of all Mary's miracles, the best attested, next to ...
— Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres • Henry Adams
... men of this nation is Simply a pr. mockerson, Leagins, flap in front & a Buffalow roabe, with ther arms & ears Deckorated The women, wore Mockersons leagins fringed and a Shirt of Goat Skins, Some with Sleaves. this garment is longe & Genlry. White & fringed, tied at the waste with a roabe, ...
— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al
... After the longe despayred fruitfulnes of thy wyfe, Ihearsay thou art made a father, and that wyth a man chylde, whyche sheweth in it selfe a meruelous towardnes, and euen to be lyke the parentes: and that if so be we maye by such markes and tokens pronosticate anye thyng, maye seeme to promise perfite vertue. ...
— The Education of Children • Desiderius Erasmus
... Potage Lamballe. Friture de Goujons. Longe de veau aux Celeris. Gelinotte a la Casserole. ...
— The Gourmet's Guide to Europe • Algernon Bastard
... to a contemporary letter, this was the sole cause of Lefevre's departure. "Faber Stapulensis ab urbe longe abest ad XX. lapidem, neque ullam ob causam quam quod convitia in Lutherum audire non potest." Glareanus to Zwingle, Paris, July ...
— The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Henry Martyn Baird
... dykers and deluers that doth here dedes ille, And dryuen forth the longe day with 'Deu, vous saue, Dame Emme!'" (Prologue, ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 • Various
... longe mea quidem sententia Qui imperium credat esse gravius, aut stabilius, Vi quod fit, quam illud, quod ...
— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne
... the shawes[1] be sheyne,[2] And leves be large and longe, Hit is full merry in feyre forest To ...
— Brief History of English and American Literature • Henry A. Beers
... beene sheene, and shradds full fayre, And leaves both large and longe, Itt is merrye walking in the fayre forrest To heare the ...
— Book of Old Ballads • Selected by Beverly Nichols
... can scarce see howe that well can bee, for I can assure you the garrett that I laye in putt mee in mind of myne infancye, for I lye all the night longe as if I had ...
— A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV. • Editor: A.H. Bullen
... born him wel, as of so litel space, In hope to stonden in his lady grace. Embrowded was he, as it were a mede Al ful of fressh floures, white and reede. Syngynge he was, or floytynge,{20} al the day; He was as fressh as is the moneth of May. Schort was his goune, with sleevs longe and wyde. Wel cowde he sitte on hors, and fair ryde. He cowd songs make and wel endite, Juste and eek daunce, and wel purtreye and write. So hote he loved, that by nightertale He sleep nomore than doth a nightyngale. ...
— Six Centuries of English Poetry - Tennyson to Chaucer • James Baldwin
... and steady as she read the unfamiliar Latin, still kneeling, with the book a little raised to catch the candlelight, and her grave tranquil eyes bent upon it. Only once did her voice falter, and then she commanded it again immediately; and that, as she read "Erant autem et mulieres de longe aspicientes." "There were also women ...
— By What Authority? • Robert Hugh Benson
... 'sic enim Atheniensium scholas longe positus introisti' does not mean that Boethius actually visited Athens, but that he became thoroughly at home in the works of ...
— The Letters of Cassiodorus - Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of - Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator • Cassiodorus (AKA Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator)
... montis; Non obsessae arces, non fulmina vindice dextra Missa Jovis, quoties inimicus saevit in urbes, Exaequant sonitum undarum, veniente procella: Littora littoribus reboant; vicinia late, Gens assueta mari, et pedibus percurrere rupes, Terretur tamen, et longe fugit, arva relinquens. Gramina dum carpunt pendentes rupe capellae, Vi salientis aquae de summo praecipitantur, Et dulces animas imo sub gurgite linquunt. Piscator terra non audet vellere funem; Sed latet in portu ...
— The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume I (of 2) • Jonathan Swift
... pleno subsellia nostra Senatu Decernant infame Jovis pulvinar, et omne Idolum longe purgata ex urbe fugandum, Qua vocat egregii sententia Principis, illuc Libera, cum pedibus, ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 3 • Edward Gibbon
... the Fire or a Candle, which has a kind of fleshy sent, not much unlike to hair. And having since examin'd several Authors concerning them, among others; I find this account given by Bellonius, in the XI. Chap. of his 2d Book, De Aquatilibus. Spongiae recentes, says he, a siccis longe diversae, scopulis aquae marinae ad duos vel tres cubitos, nonnunquam quatuor tantum digitos immersis, ut fungi arboribus adhaerent, sordido quodam succo aut mucosa potius sanie refertae, usque adeo foetida, ut vel ...
— Micrographia • Robert Hooke
... Countenance, such Lenity in your Eyes, gravity in your speech, as that for your gracefull presence that may be truly affirm'd of you what was once appli'd to a great Prince resembling you, Jam firmitas, Jam proceritas corporis, jam honor Capitis & dignitas oris, ad hoc aetatis indeflexa maturitas, nonne longe lateque principem ostentant? since even all these assemble in your Majesties personage; Nor has fortune chang'd you after all your Travels and Adventures abroad; but brought you back to us not so much as tinged in the percolations through which you have been forc'd ...
— An Apologie for the Royal Party (1659); and A Panegyric to Charles the Second (1661) • John Evelyn
... also the admission and divulgation of the Olde and Newe Testament translated into englishe. Wher upon his highnes, in his owne royall person, callynge to hym the said primates and divines, hath seriously and depely, with great leisure and longe deliberation, consulted, debated, inserched, and discussed the premisses: and finally, by all their free assentes, consentes, and agrementes, concluded, resolved, and determyned, that these bokes ensuynge, that is to say, the boke entitled the wicked Mammona, the boke named ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 183, April 30, 1853 • Various
... river where we lay'd that night. The day following we proceeded on our journey, where we mett 2 men, with whome our wild men seemed to be acquainted by some signes. These 2 men began to speake a longe while. After came a company of women, 20 in number, that brought us dry fish and Indian corne. These women loaded themselves, after that we had eaten, like mules with our baggage. We went through a small wood, the way well beaten, untill ...
— Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson • Peter Esprit Radisson
... patiuntur ab adventu Europaeorum longe frequentissima et maxime fatalis est lues venerea. An hic morbus indigenis, priusquam illis immiscebuntur Europaei erat notus, sciri nunc minime potest. Ipsi jamdiu ex oriente adductum dicunt, ex quo maxime probabile videtur, eum, origine prima ex Europa, inde de gente in gentem per totam poene ...
— Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central • Edward John Eyre
... all the grain into the Tapan Gam's hands, amounting to 60 maunds. In the evening received as a present a long sword from Premsong. Found a fine Impatiens and a shrub coming into flower, Calyce aestiv. valvato? Stamen 4, connectivo ultra antheras longe producto, ovarium adnatum, foliis oppositis, exstipulatis. Meyenia coccinea, finely in flower. An arborescent Urticea (Baehmeria?) foliis subtus candidis ...
— Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and The - Neighbouring Countries • William Griffith
... senvestigos, kaj, post la bano, kunvespermangxas. Kelkafoje sed malofte, sxarko proksimigas al la tero, sed kvankam tiuj cxi malagrablaj vizitantoj plioftigxas, gxis nun oni povas bani sendangxere. Oni diras ke la fisxoj elvenis el la Rugxa Maro tra la Sueza Kanalo. Antaux ne longe unu el miaj Italaj amikoj estis fisxkaptanta vespere kaj malsupre, knabo nagxis. Subite la knabo ekkriis "Ho, kia bela hundego." Mia amiko rigardis kaj ekvidis proksime grandan fokon, cxirkaux tri jardoj da longeco kiu lin rigardis per siaj brilantaj kaj inteligentaj okuloj. ...
— The Esperantist, Vol. 1, No. 1 • Various
... lingvo perfectly capable of living use, internacia, konsciante ke teoria and in every respect completely disputado kondukos al nenio kaj adequate, therefore the friends ke la celo povas esti atingita of the idea of international nur per laborado praktika, jam de language, recognizing that longe cxiuj grupigxis cxirkaux theoretical discussion will lead la sola lingvo, Esperanto, kaj to nothing and that the end can laboras por gxia disvastigado kaj only be attained by practical ricxigado de gxia literaturo. and continuous ...
— International Language - Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar • Walter J. Clark
... Saies, 'Christ you saue, good Chyld Waters!' Sayes, 'Christ you saue and see! My girdle of gold which was too longe Is now to ...
— Ballads of Romance and Chivalry - Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series • Frank Sidgwick
... scholde be solenniysed in Ynglonde. The dethe of this qwene Anne induced grete hevynesse to noble men and to commune peple also, for sche causede noo lytelle profite to the realme. But mony abusions comme from Boemia into Englonde with this qwene, and specially schoone with longe pykes, insomoche that they cowthe not go untylle that thei were tyede to theire legges, usenge that tyme cheynes of silvyr at the pykes of ...
— Illuminated Manuscripts • John W. Bradley
... can see, Partridge," cries Jones, "hanging is a matter non longe alienum a Scaevolae studiis." "You should say alienus," says Partridge,—"I remember the passage; it is an example under communis, alienus, immunis, variis casibus serviunt." "If you do remember it," cries Jones, "I find you don't ...
— The History of Tom Jones, a foundling • Henry Fielding |
