"Proper name" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Cosmos, vol. ii. p. 140, "The legend of Prometheus, and the unbinding of the chains of the fire-bringing Titan on the Caucasus by Hercules in journeying eastward—the ascent of Io from the valley of the Hybrites—[See Griffiths' note on v. 717, on [Greek: hybristes potamos], which must be a proper name]—toward the Caucasus; and the myth of Phryxus and Helle—all point to the same path on which Phoenician ...
— Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes • Aeschylus
... garden of Paradise, when thou wast bred under the tree of knowledge, in the first rose, our Lord kissed thee and gave thee thy proper name—Poetry. ...
— Pictures of Sweden • Hans Christian Andersen
... another kind of names, which, although they are individual names—that is, predicable only of one object—are really connotative. For, though we may give to an individual a name utterly unmeaning, which we call a proper name—a word which answers the purpose of showing what thing it is we are talking about, but not of telling any thing about it; yet a name peculiar to an individual is not necessarily of this description. It may be significant of some attribute, or some union ...
— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill
... love were wrong there could not be within us such peace. That Aniela does not call it by its proper name means nothing; it is there all the same. The whole day passed for us like an idyl. Formerly I disliked Sundays; now I find that a Sunday, from morning until night, may be like a poem, especially in the country. Soon after breakfast, ...
— Without Dogma • Henryk Sienkiewicz
... represent the Roman Venus, and there is no place named 'Milo.' Were the statue anywhere else than in the Louvre, probably it would be known generally (as it is to scholars) by its proper name—the Aphrodite of Melos. ...
— The Book-Hunter at Home • P. B. M. Allan
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