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Lewis the Twelfth his death, tam subita mutatio, ut qui prius digito coelum attingere videbantur, nunc humi derepente serpere, sideratos esse diceres, they that were erst in heaven, upon a sudden, as if they had been planet-strucken, lay grovelling on the ground;

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Magnis tamen excidit ausis is a degree of praise which will always attend a noble and shining temerity, and a much better sign in a young fellow, than serpere humi, tutus nimium timidusque procellae.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

Antea sua dissimulatione multa vitia passi sunt in Ecclesiam serpere.

The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

'Magnis tamen excidit ausis' is a degree of praise which will always attend a noble and shining temerity, and a much better sign in a young fellow, than 'serpere humi, tutus nimium timidusque procellae'.

Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733

'Magnis tamen excidit ausis' is a degree of praise which will always attend a noble and shining temerity, and a much better sign in a young fellow, than 'serpere humi, tutus nimium timidusque procellae'.

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They said, I did _humi serpere_, that I wanted not only height of fancy, but dignity of words, to set it off.

The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes John Dryden 1665

a te principium, tibi desinam: accipe iussis carmina coepta tuis, atque hanc sine tempora circum inter uictricis hederam tibi serpere lauros.

Pharmaceutria Vergil 1912

Gualtieri was all the more reluctant to remain after he heard of the creation of nineteen new cardinals, and learned that his own name was not included in the list.] [Footnote 1188: "Angebatur interea Romæ gravissimis curis Pius pontifex, quod nec quæ legati fecissent satis probaret, et in dies malum magis serpere, omniaque remedia minus juvare audiebat."

The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird