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Page 309 - Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause.
Page 240 - The man who is sick of home often issues forth from his large mansion, and as suddenly comes back to it, finding as he does that he is no better off abroad. He races to his country-house, driving his jennets in headlong haste, as if hurrying to bring help to a house on fire: he yawns the moment he has reached the door of his house, or sinks heavily into sleep and seeks forgetfulness, or even in haste goes back again to town.
Page 268 - I either walk upon my terrace or in the covered portico, and there I continue to meditate or dictate what remains upon the subject in which I am engaged. This completed, I get into my chariot, where I employ myself as before, when I was walking, or in my study ; and find this change of scene refreshes and keeps up my attention. On my return home, I take a little nap, then a walk, and after that repeat out loud and distinctly...
Page 48 - t so: — 'tis my command, My will ; let that, sir, for a reason stand." Thus the virago triumphs, thus she reigns: Anon she sickens of her first domains, And seeks for new; husband on husband takes, Till of her bridal veil one rent she makes. Again she tires, again for change she burns, And to the bed she lately left returns, While the fresh garlands, and unfaded boughs, Yet deck the portal of her wondering spouse. Thus swells the list; eight husbands in five years: A rare inscription for thejr...
Page 35 - Marcellimis, on the death of an amiable young Woman. I WRITE this under the utmost oppression of. sorrow : the youngest daughter of my friend Fundanus is dead ! Never surely was there a more agreeable, and more amiable young person ; or one who better deserved to have enjoyed a long, I had almost said, an immortal life ! She had all the wisdom of age, and discretion of a matron, joined with youthful sweetness and virgin modesty.
Page 180 - A beau is one who, with the nicest care, In parted locks divides his curling hair; One who with balm and cinnamon smells sweet, Whose humming lips some Spanish air repeat; Whose naked arms are smoothed with pumice-stone, And tossed about with graces all his own...
Page 226 - This year has produced a plentiful crop of poets: during the whole month of April scarcely a day has passed on which we have not been entertained with the recital of some poem.
Page 132 - A flattering, cringing, treacherous, artful race, Of torrent tongue, and never-blushing face; A Protean tribe, one knows not what to call, Which shifts to every form, and shines in all: Grammarian, painter, augur, rhetorician, Rope-dancer, conjurer, fiddler, and physician, All trades his own, your hungry Greekling counts; And bid him mount the sky, — the sky he mounts!
Page 166 - sparage wild, which, from the mountain's side, My housemaid left her spindle to provide ; And grapes long kept, yet pulpy still, and fair, And the rich Signian and the Syrian pear ; And apples, that in flavour and in smell The boasted Picene equal, or excel : — Nor need you fear, my friend, their liberal use, For age has mellowed and improved their juice.
Page 25 - I would take upon myself the whole expense, were I not apprehensive that my benefaction might hereafter be abused and perverted to private ends ; as I have observed to be the case in several places where teachers are engaged by the local authorities.