"Mede" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... floures in the mede, Then love I most those floures white and redde; Such that men callen Daisies in our town. To them I have so great affection, As I said erst when comen is the Maye, That in my bedde there dawneth me no daie, That I n'am up and walking in the mede To see this floure against ...
— The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare • Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
... in the mede Than love I most these floures white and rede Soch that men callen Daisies in our town, To hem I have so great affection, As I sayd erst, when comen is the Maie. That in my bedde there daweth me no daie, That I n'am up ...
— Language of Flowers • Kate Greenaway
... day that all should readie be, But they more subtill meaning had than he: For the next morrowes mede they closely ment, For feare of after-claps, ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth
... We know from Milton that old Hobson delivered his parcels pretty regularly eighty years before 1710. And, one generation before that, it is plain, by the interesting (though somewhat Jacobinical) letters [5] of Joseph Mede, the commenter on the Apocalypse, that news and politics of one kind or other (and scandal of every kind) found out for themselves a sort of contraband lungs to breathe through between London and Cambridge; ...
— The Notebook of an English Opium-Eater • Thomas de Quincey
... taught of that o'er-artful man, the Italiote captive, Kroton's Demokede, who recked not what of maladies began, nor who in Asia and in Greece might bleed, if he—so writes the guileless Thurian— regained his home, and freedom of the Mede. ...
— The Evolution of Modern Medicine • William Osler
... are armes vyrtues mede, (that is to say, coats of arms) Shee nillynge to take myckle ...
— The Rowley Poems • Thomas Chatterton
... xlvi., 18: [Greek: pros hen kai auten toiautas epistolas grapheis hoias an grapseien aner skoptoles athuroglorros ... kai proseti kai to stoma autou diaballein epecheirese tosaute aselgeia kai akatharsia para panta ton bion chromenos hoste mede ton sungenestaton apechesthai, alla ten te gunaika ...
— Life of Cicero - Volume One • Anthony Trollope |
