"Silvia" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the stag, which erst The sons of Tyrrheus (Tyrrheus kept whilere The royal herd and pastures), fostering nursed, Snatched from the dam. Their sister, Silvia fair, Oft wreathed his horns, and oft with tender care She washed him, and his shaggy coat would comb. So tamed, and trained his master's board to share, The gentle favourite in the woods would roam; Each night, how late soe'er, he sought the ...
— The Aeneid of Virgil - Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor • Virgil
... went to the girls' school building, near ours, to give the story of the boy from Padua to Silvia's teacher, who wished to read it. There are seven hundred girls there. Just as I arrived, they began to come out, all greatly rejoiced at the holiday of All Saints and All Souls; and here is a beautiful thing that I saw: Opposite the ...
— Cuore (Heart) - An Italian Schoolboy's Journal • Edmondo De Amicis
... are young and in their Spring Of Pleasure, of Pleasure, let 'em take their full Swing, full Swing,—full Swing, And love, and dance, and play, and sing. For Silvia, believe it, when Youth is done, There's nought but hum drum, hum drum, hum drum; There's nought but hum drum, ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. III • Aphra Behn |
