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'Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere
Nor can one England brook a double reign
Of Harry Percy and the Prince of Wales.'
'Victrix causa Diis placuit, sed victa Catoni.'
'Plausuque sui gaudere theatri.'
Quoted by Mr. Pitt, in his speech on the address in et trunco non frondibus efficit umbram
.'' ... And swords
With ugly teeth of black rust foully scarred.'
Lecca. The day goes back,
Or else my senses.
Cirius. As at Atreus' feast.
Cethegus. Not infants in the porch of life were free.
Catiline. 'Twas crime enough that they had lives: to strike but only those that could do hurt was dull and poor: some fell to make the number as some the prey.
Syene , and where the shadow both way falls,
Meroe , Nilotick isle; ...
The rugged Charon fainted,
And asked a navy, rather than a boat,
To ferry over the sad world that came.
'Victi victoresque in
lacrumas effusi, sortem civilium armorum misera latitia detestantes.'
'Phlegra, the field where all the sons of earth
Mustered against the gods, did ne'er acknowledge
So proud and huge a monster.'
'Thus far hath one of steep Parnassus ' brows
Sufficed me: henceforth there is need of both,
For my remaining enterprise.'
When the boisterous sea,
Without a breath of wind, hath knocked the sky.
I have been all day, looking after
A raven feeding on a quarter,
And soon as she turned her beak to the south
I snatched this morsel out of her mouth.'
It is, methinks, a morning full of fate!
It riseth slowly, as her sullen car
Had all the weight of sleep and death hung at it!
And her sick head is bound about with clouds
As if she threatened night ere noon of day.
Hac acies victum factura nocentem est
.' 'State Trials,' v. 1014.I tremble not with terror, but with hope,
As the great day reveals its coming scope;
Never in earlier days, our hearts to cheer,
Have such bright gifts of Heaven been brought so near,
Nor ever has been kept the aspiring soul
By space so narrow from so grand a goal.
Inaugural address at "Hath Jove no thunder?"
caelo tegitur qui non habet urnam
.'Men used to sceptres are ashamed of nought:
The mildest governement a kingdome finds
Under new kings.
The prince who shames a tyrant's name to bear
Shall never dare do anything, but fear;
All the command of sceptres quite doth perish
If it begin religious thoughts to cherish;
Whole empires fall, swayed by these nice respects,
It is the licence of dark deeds protects
E'en states most hated, when no laws resist
The sword, but that it acteth what it list.
Turpe mori post te solo non posse dolore
.'Clarum et venerabile nomen
Gentibus, et multum nostrae quod profuit urbi,
quoted by Mr. Burke, and applied to Lord Chatham, in his Speech on American taxation.Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns
And the round ocean and the living air
And the blue sky and in the mind of man.
I saw a crowd within
Of serpents terrible, so strange of shape
And hideous that remembrance in my veins
Yet shrinks the vital current. Of her sands
Let Libya vaunt no more: if Jaculus,
Pareas, and Chelyder be her brood,
Cenchris and Amphisbaena, plagues so dire
Or in such numbers swarming ne'er she showed.
- All my being,
Like him whom the Numidian Seps did thaw
Into a dew with poison, is dissolved,
Sinking through its foundations.
Gloucester. Thine eyes, sweet lady, have infected mine.
Anne. Would they were basilisks, to strike thee dead!
The word is also used for a big cannon (' 1 King Henry IV.,' Act ii., Scent 3).'ibi fas ubi proxima merces,'
with Hosius and Francken.