34 examples of pectora in sentences

Luxerat ilia dies, legis gens docta supernae Spes hominum ac curas cum procul esse jubet, Ponti inter strepitus sacri non munera cultus Cessarunt; pietas hic quoque cura fuit: Quid quod sacrifici versavit femina libros, Legitimas faciunt pectora pura preces.

Boswell wrote to Johnson on Feb. 2, 1775, (ante, ii. 295):'Lord Hailes bids me tell you he doubts whether "Legitimas faciunt pectora pura preces," be according to the rubrick, but that is your concern; for you know, he is a Presbyterian.' In Johnson's Works, i. 167, these lines are given with amendments and additions, mostly made by Johnson, but some, Mr. Croker believes, by Mr. Langton.

Mr. Croker says of the third line from the end, that in a copy of these verses in Johnson's own hand which he had seen, 'Johnson had first written Sunt pro legitimis pectora pura sacris.

Pectora percussit, pectus quoque robora fiunt.

Vis facit vna pios, iustos facit altera, et alt'ra Egregie cordata ac fortia pectora: verum Omne tulit punctum, qui miscuit vtile dulci.

Priores Anthropophagos, quos ad Septentrionem esse diximus decem dierum itinere supra Borysthenem amnem, ossibus humanorum capitum bibere, cutibusque cum capillo pro mantelibus ante pectora vti, Isigonus Nicænsis.

"Abderitanae pectora plebis habes.

Exhaurit pietas oculos, et hiantia frangit Pectora, nec plenos avido sinit edere questus, Magna adeo jactura premit," &c.

Come into a third place, you shall have an aged father sighing for a son, a pretty child; "Impube pectus quale vel impia Molliret Thracum pectora.

[4690]Improbe amor quid non mortalia pectora cogis?

Viderunt oculi, rapuerunt pectora flammae; Ammon fell sick for Thamar's sake, 2 Sam. xiii.

Ex illo fervet, rarusque hic mergitur hospes, Cui non titillet pectora blandus amor.

" That impression of her beauty is still fixed in his mind,haerent infixi pectora vultus; as he that is bitten with a mad dog thinks all he sees dogsdogs in his meat, dogs in his dish, dogs in his drink: his mistress is in his eyes, ears, heart, in all his senses.

Urimur, et coecum, pectora vulnus habent, and can hardly be discerned at first.

" And in the morn betime, as those Lacedaemonian lasses saluted Helena and Menelaus, singing at their windows, and wishing good success, do we at yours: "Salve O sponsa, salve felix, det vobis Latona Felicem sobolem, Venus dea det aequalem amorem Inter vos mutuo; Saturnus durabiles divitias, Dormite in pectora mutuo amorem inspirantes, Et desiderium!"

c. 7. Optimum est amicum fidelem nancisci in quem secreta nostra infundamus; nihil aeque oblectat animum, quam ubi sint praeparata pectora, in quae tuto secreta descendant, quorum conscientia aeque ac tua: quorum sermo solitudinem leniat, sententia consilium expediat, hilaritas tristitiam dissipet, conspectusque ipse delectet.

Summo mane ululatum oriuntur, pectora percutientes, &c. miserabile spectaculum exhibentes.

Nec saltent modo sed duo charissima pectora indissolubili mutuae benevolentiae nodo corpulent, ut nihil unquam eos incedere possit irae vel taedii.

'Theseâ pectora juncta fide.' Ovid.

nova me facies inopinaque terret; Me maculæ turpes, nudæque in corpore sordes, Et cruciant duris exercita pectora poenis: Me

Ne dubita, numquam fractis hæc pectora, numquam Deficient animis: prius ille ingentia coeli Atria, desertosque aeternae lucis alumnos Destituens, Erebum admigret noctemque profundam, Et Stygiis mutet radiantia lumina flammis.

'Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam, Rectique cultus pectora roborant: Utcunque defecere mores, Dedecorant bene nata culpæ.

'Theseâ pectora juncta fide.' Ovid.

In short, we look upon the Terrors of a Description, with the same Curiosity and Satisfaction that we survey a dead Monster. 'Informe cadaver Protrahitur, nequeunt expleri corda tuendo Terribiles oculos: vultum, villosaque satis Pectora semiferi, atque extinctos faucibus ignes.' Virg.

'Quid non mortalia Pectora cogis Auri sacra fames' Virg.

34 examples of  pectora  in sentences