 | Leigh Hunt - 1889 - 590 pages
...which are an endless pleasure. How grand they ai« ! Pronaqne cum spectent animalia caetera terrain, Os homini sublime dedit, coelumque tueri Jussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus. Even Dryden's translation falls short, except in one epithet suggested by his creed :— Thus, while... | |
 | Anthropology - 1890 - 430 pages
...look heavenward and hold his face erect towards the stars. " Pronaque cum spectent animal ia cetera terram, Os homini sublime dedit, coelumque tueri Jussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus."* Ovid, Metamorphoses : I, 84-8(1. *. Compare Milton : "A creature who not prone And brute as other creatures,... | |
 | Camille Flammarion - Astronomy - 1894 - 732 pages
...penetrate them, illuminated with stars ; his intelligence is elevated above all other terrestrial beings. Os homini sublime dedit, coelumque tueri Jussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus. Progress and liberty ! Already the child aspires to overleap the mountains and seas which circumscribe... | |
 | Herbert Baynes - Comparative linguistics - 1895 - 410 pages
...commune est. Quo mihi rectius videtur ingenii quam virium opibus gloriam quaerere.' And Ovid sings: — 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. As Prof.... | |
 | Arthur Charles Hervey, Charles Hole - Bible - 1895 - 264 pages
...upon the earth in his Maker's image, in the likeness of God. He stood erect with uplifted face — " Os homini sublime dedit, coelumque tueri Jussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus." And he was made lord of the earth. God made him have dominion over the works of His hands, and put... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1897 - 456 pages
...the human race ; at least if we believe the Roman poet, who tells us that She (meaning Nature) ' ' Os homini sublime dedit, coelumque tueri Jussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus : " ie, to the race of man she gave an aspiring countenance, and laid her commands upon that race to... | |
 | Cosmas (Indicopleustes) - Geography, Medieval - 1897 - 496 pages
...conscious that 1 Gen. i, 1. 2 Rom. i, 23. 3 Compare Ovid, Afetamorph., Book I, 11. 84-86 : Pronaque cum spectent animalia caetera terram, Os homini sublime...tueri Jussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus. earthly and heavenly things were bound together through him. Moreover, all the brute animals copulate... | |
 | Edward Payson Evans - Ethics - 1898 - 412 pages
...with which it can turn its eyes heavenward. Yet Ovid says — Pronaque cum epectont animalia cetera terram, Os homini sublime dedit, coelumque tueri Jussit ; et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus. Less than a century later Silius Italicus, in his epic of the Second Punic War (xv.), amplified the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1899 - 526 pages
...serpent, eating the dust— " Atque affigit humo divinae particulam aurae."—Horace.' And again— " Os homini sublime dedit, coelumque tueri Jussit; et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus."—Ovid.* Some, however, may flatter themselves, that, by what sinister means soever their... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1900 - 334 pages
...twang, " Who's for poonsh f" or perhaps he would imitate his delivery of the celebrated lines of Ovid : "Os homini sublime dedit — coelumque tueri Jussit — et erectos ad sidera — tollere vultus," ' which he gave with pauses and half-whistlings interjected, looking downward all the time, and absolutely... | |
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Pronaque cum spectent animalia csetera terram, Os homini sublime dedit, coelumque tueri Jussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus. 
