"Etrurian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... second of the great re-creative forces of that time, was of the Tuscan peasantry, Etrurian in type, therefore Italian in speech, by name Hildebrand. Whether an historian understands his career or no is a very test of whether that historian understands the nature of Europe. For St. Gregory VII. imposed nothing upon Europe. ...
— Europe and the Faith - "Sine auctoritate nulla vita" • Hilaire Belloc
... and diffused, yet worthy to be written in letters of gold." [531] Very many of Burton's books, pamphlets and articles in the journals of the learned societies appeal solely to archaeologists, as, for example Etruscan Bologna, [532] an account of the Etrurian people, their sharp bottomed wells, the pebble tombs of the poor and the elegant mausoleums of the wealthy with their figures of musicians and dancing girls "in garments of the most graceful form, finest texture and brilliant hues;" reminding us of the days when Veii fell, and its goddess, who ...
— The Life of Sir Richard Burton • Thomas Wright
... return to Rome after a long absence, gave me a welcoming supper, as the Romans call it, and invited some few other friends, and among the rest, one Lucius an Etrurian, the scholar of Moderatus the Pythagorean. He seeing my friend Philinus ate no flesh, began (as the opportunity was fair) to talk of Pythagoras; and affirmed that he was a Tuscan, not because his father, as others have said, was ...
— Essays and Miscellanies - The Complete Works Volume 3 • Plutarch
... his predictions are soon verified; for, on the celebration of the orgies, Bacchus having assumed a disguise, is brought before him; and having related to Pentheus the story of the transformation of the Etrurian sailors into dolphins, he is thrown into prison. On this, Pentheus is torn in pieces by the Bacchanals, and great respect is afterwards paid ...
— The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Vol. I, Books I-VII • Publius Ovidius Naso
... DI SEGNI, 'mid the Volscians born, Streamed in thy veins that fiery, Roman blood, Curled thy proud lip, and fired thy eagle eyes. Faultless in beauty, as the noble forms Painted on rare Etrurian vase of old; How life, ennobled by thy love, swept on, Serene, above ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. II. July, 1862. No. 1. • Various
... and observances of the Church—which are nine-tenths of all their religion to the multitude—were only old heathen superstitious in new dresses. The bell was a spell against the demons of lightning in old Etrurian days; to this time the Tuscan peasant bears one in the darkening twilight-tide to drive away the witches flitting round: in him and them "those evening bells" inspired a ...
— Memoirs • Charles Godfrey Leland
... her in his Oriental robe, and folded arms, and steadfast and haughty brow. 'Who art thou,' she said at last, 'that callest thyself greater in art than the Saga of the Burning Fields, and the daughter of the perished Etrurian race?' ...
— The Last Days of Pompeii • Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
... early part of September, that the brothers turned their backs on the Etrurian Athens. Their destination was Venice, and their route lay through ...
— A Love Story • A Bushman
... Labor and the Land of Rest, Where mediaeval towns are white on all The hillsides, and where every mountain's crest Is an Etrurian ...
— Italy, the Magic Land • Lilian Whiting |
