"Pluto" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... son Achilles, sing, O Muse, The direful wrath, which sorrows numberless Brought on the Greeks, and many mighty souls Of youthful heroes, slain untimely, sent To Pluto's dark abode, their bodies left A prey to dogs and all ...
— Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism • F. V. N. Painter
... see her damn'd first: to Pluto's damn'd Lake, to the Infernall Deepe, where Erebus and Tortures vilde also. Hold Hooke and Line, say I: Downe: downe Dogges, downe Fates: haue wee not Hiren here? Host. Good Captaine Peesel be quiet, it is very late: I beseeke you now, ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare
... Pluto, were, perhaps, originally three brothers, kings of three separate kingdoms. Having been deified each retaining his sovereignty, they were depicted as having the world divided between them; the empire of the sea falling to the share of Neptune. Among his occupations, were those of raising ...
— The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Vol. I, Books I-VII • Publius Ovidius Naso
... melting voice through mazes running; Untwisting all the chains that ty The hidden soul of harmony. That Orpheus self may heave his head From golden slumber on a bed Of heapt Elysian flowres, and hear Such streins as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half regain'd Eurydice. 150 These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth with thee, I mean ...
— The Poetical Works of John Milton • John Milton
... yet alive, have gone Down to the abode of Pluto; twice to die Is yours, while others ...
— Trail Tales • James David Gillilan
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