 | Classical literature - 1803 - 334 pages
...excitavitque ad cœli, quasi cognationis domiciliique sui, conspectum. Pronaque cùm spectent animalia extera terram, Os homini sublime dedit, coelumque tueri Jussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus. Ovid. Met. \. ver. 84. Omitto opportunitates habilitatesque alias corporis, moderationem vocis, orationis vim,... | |
 | Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) - German literature - 1813 - 438 pages
...looking upwards to heaven, which Ovid has recorded as the noblest attribute of feunian nature. • Os homini sublime dedit ; coelumque tueri * Jussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultiu. » He, who to man a form erect has given, Bade his exalted looks be ftx'd on heave*. END OF... | |
 | Juvenal - 1825 - 234 pages
...147. Cujus agent prona, <Sfc.] Sic Ovidius, Met. i. Prouaque cum spectent anhnalia caetera terrain, Os homini sublime dedit, coelumque tueri Jussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus. 148. Indulsit] Dedit, concessit. — Conditor] Creator. 149. Animas] Life, the animal soul ; ^"xt.... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1826 - 432 pages
...his old master with ludicrous exaggeration; repeating, with pauses and half-whistlings interjected, Os homini sublime dedit, — coelumque tueri, Jussit, — et erectos ad sidera — tollere vultus; looking downwards all the time, and, while pronouncing the four last words, absolutely touching the... | |
 | 1826 - 598 pages
...(which is to us about as agreeable as the taste of the horse-pond at her door was to Mrs. Hardcastle :) Os homini sublime dedit : coelumque tueri Jussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere minis. There is no sort of doubt that Mr. Canning is an accomplished scholar, I therefore ascribe the... | |
 | William Danby - 1827 - 826 pages
...attempt to fly higher than common sense will carry us, it must be with Icarus's wings. CCCCLVII. " Os homini sublime dedit coelumque tueri " Jussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus." O LUCRETIUS, it is to be hoped, that notwithstanding your imperfect endowments as a heathen, and your... | |
 | and Fellow of a college in Cambridge Master of Arts - Latin language - 1828 - 326 pages
...representation of the same idea by different images ; as in the fine lines of Ovid — Met. i. 73. Os homini sublime dedit, coelumque tueri Jussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus. The account of the same thing is repeated in three different ways. He has also expressed the simple... | |
 | Publius Ovidius Naso - 1829 - 350 pages
...effigiem moderantum cuncta Deorum. 1 Fratrum ; See ventus. Pronaque cum spectent animalia caetera terrarn, Os homini sublime dedit, coelumque tueri Jussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus. Sic, modo quae fuerat rudis ' et sine imagine, tellus Induit ignotas hominum conversa figuras. Qwttuor... | |
 | Theology - 1836 - 708 pages
...beings on earth. This was also the opinion of pagan nations, which is elegantly expressed by Ovid. Os homini sublime dedit ; coelumque tueri Jussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus. Met. Lib. 1. 1. 85. Adam, in the primary sense of the word, is the name of the human race, the whole... | |
 | Gaius Sallustius Crispus - 1832 - 448 pages
...56.: notissima autem sunt illa Ovidii, Metam. I. 84 — 6., " Pronaque quum spectent animalia cetera terram, Os homini sublime dedit, coelumque tueri Jussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus." Ceterum videtur Sallustius locum ilium Platonis respexisse, quem protulit Longin. de Subi. s. 13. 6.... | |
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Pronaque cum spectent animalia csetera terram, Os homini sublime dedit, coelumque tueri Jussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus. 
