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Ovid has said in vain, that God has created us to look up to heaven: “Erectos ad sidera tollere vultus.”
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That the usurer breaketh the first law, that was made for mankind after the fall, which was, in sudore vultus tui comedes panem tuum; not, in sudore vultus alieni.
The Essays 2007
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Aut infeliciter venatus tam impatiens inde, ut summos saepe viros acerbissimis contumeliis oneraret, et incredibile est quali vultus animique habitu dolorem iracundiamque praeferret,
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In Ovid it is, “The face of nature was the same throughout the universe,” which means not that all was homogeneous, but heterogeneous — this assemblage of different things appeared the same; “unus vultus.”
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O ter felix solum! beatus ego, si me calcaveris; vultus tuus amnes sistere potest, &c. 5467.
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That impression of her beauty is still fixed in his mind, — [5341] haerent infixi pectora vultus; as he that is bitten with a mad dog thinks all he sees dogs — dogs in his meat, dogs in his dish, dogs in his drink: his mistress is in his eyes, ears, heart, in all his senses.
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Rosae formosaram oculis nascuntur, et hilaritas vultus elegantiae corona.
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“My son Jack, Sir Richard, my son Jack, ingenui vultus puer.”
Westward Ho! 2007
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Animos tristes subito exhilarat, nubilos vultus serenat, austeritatem reponit, jucunditatem exponit, barbariemque facit deponere gentes, mores instituit, iracundiam mitigat.
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His vultus minax, torvus aspectus, pallor in facie, in labiis tremor, stridor in dentibus, &c. 1692.
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