"Amende" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... place thus combining with his peculiar motive, Euripides writes the Bacchanals. It is this extravagant phase of religion, and the latest-born of the gods, which as an amende honorable to the once slighted traditions of Greek belief, he undertakes to interpret to an audience composed of people who, like Scyles, the Hellenising king of Scythia, feel the attraction of Greek religion and Greek usage, ...
— Greek Studies: A Series of Essays • Walter Horatio Pater
... somehow a savagery as of youth came over me in my ancient days; it was like being twenty years old again." It came out, however, that "our indiscreet friend Froude" had written something which justified the paragraph, and Kinglake sent his amende to Chenery, with whom ordinarily he was on most ...
— Biographical Study of A. W. Kinglake • Rev. W. Tuckwell |
