"Mede" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... think not, kindest, I forget, Receiving so much love, how much is due From me to thee: the Mede I'll wed—but yet I cannot stay these tears that gush to ...
— Zophiel - A Poem • Maria Gowen Brooks
... steady phalanx falter? To the rescue, at the need, The clown was ploughing Persia, clearing Greek earth of weed, As he routed through the Sakian and rooted up the Mede." ...
— An Introduction to the Study of Browning • Arthur Symons
... exertemenais (tais psuchais ap' autou (tou Osiridos kai theomenais aplestos kai pothousais to me phaton mede rheton anthropois kallos]. ...
— The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism • Franz Cumont
... Bocchus, the king of Libya; Archelaus Of Cappadocia; Philadelphos, king Of Paphlagonia; the Thracian king, Adallas; King Manchus of Arabia; King of Pont; Herod of Jewry; Mithridates, king Of Comagene; Polemon and Amyntas, The kings of Mede and Lycaonia, with More larger list ...
— Antony and Cleopatra • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]
... the floures in the mede Than love I most those floures of white and rede, Such that men called daisies in our toun, To them I ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various
... than musynge / in a medowe grene Myselfe alone / amonge the floures in dede With god aboue / the futertens is sene To god I sayd / thou mayst my mater spede And me rewarde / accordynge to my mede Thou knowest the trouthe / I am to the true Whan that thou lyst / thou mayst ...
— The coforte of louers - The Comfort of Lovers • Stephen Hawes
... the floures in the mede, Than love I most these floures white and rede, Soch that men callen daisies in our toun To hem I have so great affectioun, As I sayd erst, whan comen is the May, That in my bedde there daweth me no day, That I nam up and walking in the mede, To seen this floure ...
— The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 - A Typographic Art Journal • Various
... by his wife, Antigonus corrupting his daughter-in-law, the son of Attalus putting the poison in his cup; Arsaces was in the act of slaying his mistress, while the eunuch Arbaces drew his sword upon him; the guards were dragging Spatinus the Mede out from the banquet by the foot, with the lump on his brow from the golden cup. Similar sights were to be seen in the palaces of Libya and Scythia and Thrace— adulteries, murders, treasons, robberies, ...
— Works, V3 • Lucian of Samosata
... Hezekiah. His mission as a prophet was to console the people in the presence of the formidable power of Assyria, and to predict its downfall, and especially that of its capital city Nineveh, an event which happened under Cyaxares the Mede 603 B.C. His thought is forcible, his expression clear, and his diction pure, all three worthy of the classical age of ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... Miss Liza Jane—whooped us when she wanted to. She brush us all out wid the broom, tell us go build a play house. Children made the prettiest kinds of play houses them days. We mede the walls outer bark sometimes. We jus' marked it off on the ground out back of the smokehouse. We'd ride and bring up the cows. We'd take the meal to a mill. It was the best hoecake bread can be made. ...
— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - Volume II. Arkansas Narratives. Part I • Work Projects Administration
... Burnet remarks with considerable severity of the English divines, who appeared before Tillotson, Lloyd, and Stillingfleet, that their sermons were "both long and heavy, when all was pye balled, full of many sayings of different languages."(61) The sermons of the learned Joseph Mede, who died in 1638, are filled not only with Greek and Latin quotations, but with Hebrew, and Chaldee, and Syriac. But his biographer very ingenuously admits, that when he had occasion to quote from a work written in any of the Eastern languages, if the testimonies were long, Mede ...
— The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning • Hugh Binning |
